PANJIM, April 26 -- Over eight lakh square metres of land were converted to settlement zones in the second week of March this year itself under the Section 17 (2) amendment of the Town and Country Planning (TCP) Act.
The Goa Bachao Abhiyan which spearheaded and won the agitation against the earlier propel unfriendly Regional Plan 2011, collated the data from official records and gazettes. The organisation interestingly pointed out that the conversions were completed just before the Lok Sabha elections were announced and the Model Code of Conduct commenced.
The above land conversions were part of 16,58,578 square metres of land which were converted between April 2023 and March 2024. While 50 per cent of this figure was converted in a span ...