*********************************************************************** * G * O * A * N * E * T *** C * L * A * S * S * I * F * I * E * D * S * *********************************************************************** T H I S S P A C E C A N B E Y O U R S Advertise your Product(s) and Service(s) on Goanet & S u p p o r t G o a n e t o p e r a t i o n s F o r d e t a i l s c o n t a c t : [EMAIL PROTECTED] *********************************************************************** Regional Plan ordinance an 'eyewash': Parrikar BY HERALD REPORTER PANJIM, FEB 7 - It looks like the controversy over Regional Plan (RP) 2011 has not yet ended. The Leader of Opposition, Manohar Parrikar today charged that the ordinance issued by the State Government on February 5, amending the Goa Town and Country Planning Act, 1994 facilitating withdrawal of RP with retrospective effective is in fact is "defective".
Addressing a press conference, here, he alleged that the Ordinance is an "eyewash" and brought out in a suspicious way and in tie-up with builders' lobby. He said that use of word "withdrawal" does not allow de-notification of Plan from retrospective effect and the illegality of the ordinance will come to light only in the Court when affected parties will go in appeal. "The court will strike it down as bad law," he predicted. According to Parrikar use of the word "withdrawn" in legal terms does not allow the take back powers that have been already used. He said, instead of "withdrawn" use of "rescind or revoke" would have been more apt. He suggested government should issue fresh ordinance by engaging services of top most lawyer/solicitor who will able to draft legally perfect ordinance. Where is the government? Critisising the government over its handling of yesterday's college students' agitation in the city when traffic was paralysed for almost three to four hours, Parrikar said, no senior officer came on visit even as traffic remained blocked for hours due to agitating students. He also criticised government over manhandling of girl students by cops. The government has not been able to resolve number of issue -PWD's 1800 contractors will be going on strike in the next few days - following which there will be an agitation by nursing staff whose demands have not been met by the government. Government is indifferent while Goa is burning, stated Parrikar. Lashing out at Education Minister Luizinho Faleiro, Parrikar charged that students agitation is creation of Faleiro who wants to divert people's attention. Report Ends..................................... Dears , As any oncologist knows, rapid growth is not always good. It is one thing to have a bigger brain...and another to have a big brain tumour. The Regional Plan 2011 was drafted between 2000 and 2004...WHEN MANOHAR PARRIKAR WAS THE CHIEF MINISTER AND EX-OFFICIO CHAIRMAN OF THE tOWN & COUNTRY PLANNING BOARD. Shri Prakash Phadte was the TCP Minister in the initial 2.5 years and Monsieur Babush Monserrate in the next two years. Parrikar was the Lowest Common Denominator. The Arts & Commerce students who are agitiating today were denied computers when in Std. XI by the Parrikar Government. He was the CM when they were in Std XII, too. As for Police brutality, ask Girish Chodankar about the acts of Goa Police under Parrikar when the Youth Congress protested against the poor quality of roads in Ribandar. Besides Police Inspector [Panaji] Mahesh Gaokar is the same person who physically lifted Filipe Neri Rodrigues and threw him out of the Assembly during the last day of Parrikar's second stint as CM. If he had the consent to behave that way with a minister, a few students are small fry. In Konkani we have a term for a "super smart" person; Dhedd shanno. Never has anyone said that a 'dhedd shanno' is better than a "shanno"....at least not in my presence. Viva Goa. Miguel