Panjim, Jan. 23 -- The youth of Goa under the banner Save Mollem have urged the Central Empowered Committee (CEC) to suggest to the Supreme Court to revoke clearances granted for linear projects passing through the protected site.

"Our first and main demand is that they should suggest to the Supreme Court that these clearances should be revoked. Our Chief Minister and Forest Minister should direct the Goa Forest Department to return these proposals back to Goa Tamnar, South Western Railways and the PWD," said one of the members of the campaign while addressing a press conference in Panjim on Friday.

The Goa government, they said, has tried to feign ignorance about these Mollem projects as being Central projects stating that the seventh sc...