Special Correspondent
Daijiworld Media Network - Panaji

Panaji, Oct 17: The Goa Small Industries Association (GSIA), a body of small and medium scale industries, has asked for an independent commission of enquiry to conduct probe into the multi-crore land scam.

GSIA president Shekhar Prabhudesai said that the scam envelopes various industrial estates in Goa wherein the office bearers of state-run Goa Industrial Development Corporation (GIDC) committed frauds to allot the plots.

The association, which has lodged a formal police complaint last week, is perturbed as industrial plots are being transferred illegally while several small and medium scale industrialists are in a queue to get a land to set up their business.

Prabhudesai said that there are at least 250 plots ranging between 5,000 sq mt to 30,000 sq mts which GIDC transferred fraudulently changing the minutes of the meeting.

GSIA, whose representative are on the Board of Directors of GIDC, claimed that they were kept in the dark as these allotments never figured in board’s minutes of meetings.

After GSIA’s police complaint against GIDC chairman Babu Kavlekar and other office bearers, Chief minister Digambar Kamat launched an exercise to troubleshoot the situation.

Kamat himself has held meeting between GIDC and GSIA and passed four out of six major demands, which includes setting up of screening committee before any plot is allotted.