Calangute sarpanch: Can’t cease works authorized beneath ODP till SC order | Goa Information – The Occasions of India

Calangute: Till and until the Supreme Court docket decides on the appeals, the Calangute panchayat can not cease any of the continuing constructions which had been authorized beneath the scrapped define improvement plan (ODP) for Calangute, stated Calangute sarpanch Joseph Sequeira.On the gram sabha on Sunday, he stated the authorized constructions have been persevering with because the panchayat had issued building licences based mostly on the ODP which was then relevant. Nevertheless, he stated, with the Bombay excessive courtroom scrapping the ODP and ruling that the Regional Plan 2021 be adopted, the VP now solely points building licences based mostly on the RP 2021. “We’ve rejected some purposes for building licences as they weren’t as per the RP 2021,” Sequeira stated.Plenty of different points have been additionally mentioned. Villagers stated that although they’ve been promised for years that the water provide state of affairs would enhance, and even new water pipelines have been laid the state of affairs continues to be the identical, with individuals having to rise up at midnight or 2am to fill their water tanks, and a few areas receiving water provide solely as soon as in two days.The sarpanch stated there was some enchancment in a couple of areas after the full-fledged commissioning of the brand new water storage tanks at Umtawaddo. “Quite a lot of work is left to finish the Pilerne water therapy plant which is able to provide Calangute. Additionally the pipeline from the water pumping station at Boa Viagem to the Pilerne water therapy plant continues to be not accomplished. All this may take time. The handled water from the Baga sewage plant may also come solely after the reverse pipeline is laid,” he stated.Concerning the lack of on-line facility to pay the panchayat home tax, the sarpanch stated the VP has not been capable of implement the net cost facility due to too many duplicate home numbers.