Panaji, March 20 -- Congress has launched a scathing attack on the Goa Chief Minister Pramod Sawant, accusing him of facilitating backdoor access for real estate interests at the cost of the environment.
A recent Supreme Court order halting the conversion of private forest land in Goa triggered the political storm as the controversy revolves around a 2021 move by the Goa government to form a Review Committee (RC-II) to re-evaluate forest lands earlier identified by the Thomas and Araujo Committee.
The RC-II reversed the classification of 271 survey numbers, thereby opening up over 1.2 Crore square metres of land-previously protected as private forest-for potential development.
The issue has drawn strong criticism from Congress chief spok...