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GBA to seek explanation on hill-cutting

PANAJI: Peeved by the State Government’s decision to regularise an unauthorised hill-cutting at a controversial project coming up at Bambolim in north Goa, Goa Bachav Abhiyan (GBA) leaders will approach the State Town and Country Planning Department on Monday to seek an explanation on the matter.

The GBA, which spearheaded an agitation last year to stall a controversial State Regional Plan 2011 feared to destroy State’s ecology and environment, is all set to revive the agitation against the State Government’s move to give in to the dictates of developers’ lobby.

The Government had revoked all permissions under the controversial land-use plan which was withdrawn following the agitation.

The GBA leaders now fear that the Government may backtrack and allow some of the “irregularities” on piecemeal basis.

“We have decided that a large group of us visit Chief Town Planner Morad Ahmed on Monday to inspect the file and demand from him answers on what basis the regularisation has been carried out by the Government. After that we may move to the Chief Minister’s office,” Patricia Pinto, General Secretary of GBA, said here on Saturday.

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