---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: roger dsouza <rdsg2...@gmail.com> Date: 6 July 2010 10:54
Look at this shameless Builder Aboobak Shaikh alias Babloo accusing the villagers of Cansaulim of lying and being malicious. Using the backing of that corrupt politician Mauvin Godinho and some of the Panchayat members he went about securing permissions from the TCP on the basis of false plans. He now conveniently says that he was not advised on the “procedural requirements” by the Panchayat and is targeting the villagers of Cansaulim instead. Aboobakr Shaikh is the builder constructing this Gonsalves-Dias Gates project consisting of 66 flats in Cottar Vaddo. The approach road to this mega-housing project starts near the ancestral home of Fr. Randall Barretto (Pilar Society) and is a very narrow one at some places barely two metres wide at some stretches and leads to a dead-end at St Thomas Cansaulim Church. How would this meagre road support the traffic flow from 66 additional flats where in the vicinity today hardly a handful of households have vehicles? Moreover he has blocked the traditional access that the villagers had through the property to go about their daily lives like accessing the Market, Railway, Bus stop, etc. Aboobakr Shaikh has gone about intimidating, threatening and abusing the villagers including Fr. Randall Barretto who hails from the village when he questioned him as to how he was cutting the coconut trees in Fr. Barretto’s family property soon after Mauvin Godinho declared at a public meeting that he would not tolerate anyone standing against the “development” that his friend Aboobakr Shaikh has planned for the village. He continues to threaten to finish of the villagers of Cansaulim who are standing up to his bullying tactics and money power, including an elderly man InacXavier whose traditional access to his home had been blocked. In fact the villagers of Cansaulim have always been using these traditional paths for generations! Aboobakr Shaikh had numerous illegalities in his plans for this mega-housing project. The TCP has now woken up after the Gram Sabha and the Cansaulkars have questioned this. If the Panchayat is not willing to act and revoke the licence then the Directorate of Panchayats needs to intervene and dissolve it. With the blessings of Mauvin Godinho and some corrupt Panchayat members Aboobakr Shaikh has set about to destroy Cansaulim. Cansaulkars need all the support to save their village from the likes of Aboobakr Shaikh. Read the following report from today’s Times of India. ***************************************************************** Cansaulim builder blames VP for project faults TNN, Jul 6, 2010, 05.02am IST MARGAO: The builder of a mega project at Cansaulim, Babloo Shaikh, while refuting all charges of irregularities in the project, has now accused the Cansaulim-Arossim-Cuelim panchayat of failing to inform him of the procedural requirements that has now led to a controversy. Speaking to TOI, Shaikh said that there were no illegalities in the project and all complaints by certain villagers were "false and malicious". TOI had recently reported how the panchayat had failed to issue stop work order to the project despite instructions in that regard by the town and country planning department (TCP). The TCP, in its letter to the panchayat dated May 6 had pointed out that the traditional access passing through the property was not shown in the plan and that no approval was taken from the water resources department for the construction of a well by the builder. As per TCP’s directions, the panchayat asked the builder to submit a revised plan within a month. Refuting the charges, Shaikh maintained that he has not blocked any traditional access and that all the residents in the vicinity have access to their houses through properly tarred roads. "As regards the construction of the well, it was clearly shown in the site plan that was submitted to the panchayat and the TCP. If at all I was required to obtain the approval of the water resources department (WRD), the panchayat should have told me to do so before issuing the construction license. Nevertheless, I have applied for the approval with the WRD in March and they are yet to process the application," Shaikh said. -- Please post your comments on my Blog: http://goanidentity.blogspot.com/ Please also see below: 1. Benaulim Village Action Committee: http://www.bvacbenaulim.blogspot.com/ 2. "Rape of Goa" : http://www.parrikar.com/blog/the-rape-of-goa/ 3. MAND - an adivasi-rights resource centre : http://mandgoa.blogspot.com/ 4. EVERY GOAN SHOULD SEE THIS VIDEO: http://infochangeindia.org/Infochange-documentary.html 5. For the Love of Konkani: http://www.radiogoa.net/ 6. Goa's Identity Movement website: http://www.goamag.net/gim 7. Goa's Identity Movement group on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com//#/group.php?gid=193497031686 8. Official Government Site NRI Office (GOA): http://www.globalgoans.org.in/