MARGAO, DEC 21
Members of the SEZ Virodhi Manch gheraoed the GIDC Chairman, Babu Kavlekar on Tuesday and submitted a memorandum with six demand, including the demand for the resignation of all members instrumental in the allotment of lands for SEZ’s and accountability.
Convenor of the Manch, Charles Fernandes said the GIDC Chairman was left dumbfounded and repeatedly stated that the matter is under study and that he has sought a legal opinion on the matter.
SVM members were interested to know from Kavlekar whether the matter under study were actually the figures of kickbacks that would come to the Board of Directors in the fresh allotment of lands as the lands have been reverted back to the GIDC by the Court. The SVM members informed Kavlekar that people of Goa and SVM would not rest until the fraud in allotment of lands for SEZ’s is investigated and the persons involved in the fraud bought to justice by law.
While reiterating its demand for the resignation of Kavlekar and Power Minister Alexio Sequeira, the SVM warned that failure to accept the demands will provoke an intense agitation in the New Year.
The members demanded a thorough departmental inquiry followed by stringent action against the GIDC Chairman and the others mentioned above, so that the GIDC can cleanse its tainted image in the eyes of the Goan citizens.
While reiterating its demand for reverting the lands allotted for SEZs to the original owners or in the alternative handed over to the government for community projects in accordance with the wishes of the respective villagers, the SVM demanded that the GIDC immediately notify regulations under section 51 of the GIDC to specify mode or method of disposal of GIDC lands as the same do not exist till date.
Fernandes said that the GIDC should request the state government to hand over the jurisdiction of the Industrial Estates to the village Panchayats as the loss of jurisdiction has caused undue losses and violations with villagers facing the brunt due to illegalities in the form of illegal bore wells, illegal constructions, violation of construction regulations etc with local Panchayats having no control over their own lands, adding that the governance of industrial estates need to be vested to the local bodies.
SVM members gherao GIDC chairman
(Times of India) TNN, Dec 22, 2010, 05.13am IST
PANAJI: Members of the SEZ Virodhi Manch (SVM) gheraoed the chairman of Goa Industrial Development Corporation ( GIDC), Chandrakant Kavlekar, Tuesday evening in his office and demanded the resignations of all the directors who were involved in the allotment of land which was held illegal by the court recently.
The activists challenged Kavlekar to spell out why no action had been taken following the high court order. His reaction was that legal opinion has been sought.
The activists demanded that the land given to SEZ promoters should be reverted to the original owners, or handed over to the government for community projects as per wishes of the villages in which the projects were planned.
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