TCP denies NOC for GHB project BY HERALD REPORTER PANJIM, FEB 5 - The Camurlim project of Goa Housing Board (GHB) spread over 86,000 sq mt area, having 80 to 90 plots of 300 to 360 sq mt each, is in trouble as the Town and Country Planning Department (TCP) has refused to issue a permanent NOC for the project.
The reason is that the land which is adjacent to the project was earmarked for setting up a garbage treatment plant following recommendation of the House Committee (of the Goa Legislative Assembly). "While GHB has completed its project, TCP wants the project moved beyond 500 meters from the location of the proposed garbage treatment plant," said GHB Managing Director Sanjiv Gadkar. He said it is not possible to shift the project at this stage as it has been entirely developed, and even some plots have been sold out. "We have to bear the burnt of the people who have bought our plots in Carmulim," Gadkar told Herald. Interestingly, the Minister for Town and Country Planning Babush Monserrate is also a minister in-charge of GHB. "The matter has been brought to his (Babush's) notice," Gadkar admitted, hoping that the minister's intervention would help them get a permanent NOC from TCP.