Govt pushes final RP deadline to March 2013 August 30, 2012
TEAM HERALD teamher...@herald-goa.com PANJIM: As the BJP government missed a second deadline to throw open the Regional Plan 2012 for public feedback, it pushed the final deadline for completing and notifying the plan to March 2013. For the second time now, Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar has missed yet another deadline over the issue, as his government continues to waver over seeking fresh public inputs on the plan. Successive meetings between officials of TCP department and Chief Minister failed to come to any conclusion on when to initiate the exercise to get public suggestions on the plan, without keeping it open for public scrutiny. Senior official from TCP told Herald that department has been holding series of meetings with Chief Minister, since last week to take a final call over RP. “But the meetings ended without any decision”, official said adding “it is for sure that government intends to seek general suggestions from people and organizations.” When contacted, Chief Town Planner S Putturaju said that government is yet to take any decision on the matter. “We have been holding meetings with Chief Minister but there has been no decision as yet. All the possibilities are been studied,” he remarked. Assuring that the new RP 21 would be completed by December 2012, Parrikar, in the recently concluded monsoon session of State Assembly had announced that the plan would be kept open for general suggestion for one month from August 15 to September 15. However, as government failed to honour its announcement, Parrikar on August 15 further extended the deadline to complete the plan and stated that exercise to seek general suggestion would begin from August 17, and continue till September 17. However, no decision has been taken in this respect, till date. http://www.heraldgoa.in/News/Local%20News/Govt-pushes-final-RP-deadline-to-March-2013/63817.html
