ILLEGAL HIGH RISE BUILDING SHAM APPROVALS Stephen Dias Dona Paula 6.6.2019
I refer to the letter of Rui Ferreira in the local various newspapers dated 5th instant, wherein he rightfully says that high rise buildings in Conservation Zones are blatantly illegal and yet have been permitted by NGPDA by merely redrawing the boundaries demarcated earlier for conservation zones. Areas with narrow roads will now have high rise buildings without any regard for traffic, parking, accidents and basic infrastructure required to sustain the sudden increase in residential population. Similar instances of such violations are been observed in Dona Paula and now at Bay View colony where an eight floor building is being constructed on a narrow frontal road of less than six metres. The approval for this building construction have been unscrupulously obtained by CCP & NGPDA when the area falls in the Taleigao Panchayat area. Thus, the approvals should have been sought from TCP Department and the Taleigao panchayat. But the ruling party bows down to the corrupt builders by allowing sham approvals, with little concern for traffic mess, noise and air pollution. Governance has been reduced to a sham. Quality of life is deteriorating and with public spirited citizens unable to nail corrupt officers because of an obnoxious laws which requires permission to prosecute officials, corruption is having a field day. Our laws and Indian mentality permits corruption. And thats why we are in a rotten state. Time to target the Indian laws. We need to demand change in laws which the public is empowered to pull up medicore officers. Unless this is done, nothing will change and we will go deep in a botomless pit. ent from my Samsung device