Digital Goa, Oct 13 – Draft zoning plan of Pernem ceases to exist as on date, announced TCP Minister Vishwajeet Rane. “You can use any word, abeyance or scrap. But as on date the plan does not exist anymore,” said Rane. He further said that as and when citizens and the govt decides to have a plan for Pernem, a consultative process will be followed by taking the people into confidence and keeping politics aside. He also assured that orchard lands in Pernem where people have their houses, will be corrected as settlement zone. It is required to protect the houses of people living there, he added. Rane had earlier extended the date of giving suggestions on the draft zoning plan of Pernem by a month and later announced that the plan would be kept in abeyance. Alleging indiscriminate conversion of land parcels into settlement zones, people of Pernem were up in arms against the draft zoning plan notified by the TCP dept. Villagers had also met CM Pramod Sawant demanding scrapping of the plan.
