Taleigao land use map “faulty & manipulated” to help builder lobby, allege citizens

Digital Goa, May 26 – Concerned citizens of Taleigao has demanded scraping of land use map calling it faulty and manipulated. A group of professionals and other concerned citizens met the Member Secretary of NGPDA and raised their objection to various omissions and commissions in the Taleigao land use plan. This land use plan only contains buildings and critical information like natural resources, wetlands, hills, tree cover, paddy field, orchard land etc is missing in the plan. The second violation in the plan is that it shows proposed roads through field. This plan should contain only information which is existing on ground. The citizens also expressed fear that land use plans of all villages may be faulty and manipulated like how it is done in Taleigao because the same agency has prepared these plans across Goa. The land use plan carries great importance because based on these lands use plans, Outline Development Plan is prepared, Taleigao residents said.