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TCP rejects Saligao RTI on regional plan TNN 8 October 2009, 05:48am IST Print Email Discuss Bookmark/Share Save Comment Text Size: | PANAJI: Uncertainty runs rife in the minds of Saligao residents that their village committee's regional plan has been tampered with, as the town and country planning (TCP) department has rejected a Right to Information (RTI) application seeking details about the village plans. Saligao had submitted two separate plans—from the village committee and the other from the panchayat. However, the plan submitted by the village committee mysteriously disappeared, giving rise to suspicions of sabotage, said committee members. Clarifying the issue, senior town planner, S T Puttaraju said that in the case of Saligao, the plan submitted by the village committee had been mistakenly classified along with individual suggestions and objections. "It was submitted in the name of an individual hence the mistake which has now been rectified. We have accepted both plans from Saligao and they will be published on the government website soon. The state level committee for the regional plan will work on merging them into one," he said. "Attending to RTI requests from all over the state is time consuming, so we took the decision to make it transparent online," he added. Chief town planner, Morad Ahmed said that if two separate plans are received from a village, both will be published on the website. "It will ensure transparency to all. The public can see what their panchayat and their village committees have planned for them," Ahmed said. "The RTI was filed to verify whether the plan submitted by the village committee had been tampered with. Refusal by the TCP to allow checking of the plan only leads one to believe that there is something to hide," a press release by the Saligao village committee stated. "There needs to be transparency in the planning process or else people will be unable to check tampering of plans. We should be able to verify that plans uploaded are the same plans that were submitted. If there is no transparent procedure to prevent illegalities from being slipped into the planning process, the whole procedure is a wasted exercise," the committee said. -- FN +91-9822122436 P +91-832-2409490 Updated: http://goabooks.wordpress.com --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ This message comes via the Google Groups "Saligao-Net" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/saligao-net?hl=en Please post regularly to keep the e-village active! -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
