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Samir Umarye
BICHOLIM: The Bicholim police today seized four vehicles including three
trucks and a JCB involved in illegal hill cutting at Dhabdaba Bicholim even
as the personnel from Bicholim town & country planning expressed their
inability to survey the area.
The police acted following the direction from the Deputy collector,
Levinson J Maritins asking the police and the Mamletdar to inspect the site
and submit its report on the mining work being undertaken on the hill at
Dhabdabo Bicholim.
It may be recalled that the component of Communidade of Bicholim, Amrut
Gaonkar on 11/10/11 had filed a complaint with the
the Director of Mines and had asked to
stop the hill cutting going on at Dhabdaba Bicholim by a mining company
which is a 'no development slope.'
Later, the deputy collector had asked the company to stop all the work in
the area. But, the complainant brought to the notice of the deputy
collector that the work of hill cutting is still going on and so the deputy
collector taking serious note of the same passed an interim order asking
the police and the Mamletdar to immediately check if any hill cutting work
was undertaken and to submit report within a weeks time.
Today, the Bicholim police led by PSI, Ditendra Naik inspected the site and
it was found that three trucks and one earth moving vehicle (JCB) was
operating in the area. The police immediately seized the vehicles and
stopped the work in the area. The report of the same was also sent to the
Deputy collector.
As per the highly placed sources the police also taken the personnel from
the Bicholim town and country planning department to specify if the hill
cutting was going on in Survey Number -78 but to their surprise the TPC
personnel expressed their helplessness in surveying the land and claimed
that they would need the assistance of personnel from Panjim.
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