Daijiworld Media Network - Panaji (CN)

Panaji, Feb 3: Chief Minister Digamber Kamat on Tuesday February 3 said that the state government has no hesitation in extending the time limit to hear suggestions and objections on the draft regional plan 2021.

“We have no hesitation in extending the time limit given to various panchayats”, Kamat told the state legislative assembly this morning.

The chief minister said that originally January 16, 2009, was the deadline set up to give suggestions on the draft regional plan. “Thirteen village panchayats have requested for an extension”, he said.

Kamat said that various professionals have volunteered to help the local panchayats to study the plan. “We are considering the sentiments of the people… let them deliberate the plan properly”, he said. 

The regional plan ran into controversy earlier with various NGOs contending that the land use plan was aimed at robbing the state of its beauty. Later, the state government scrapped the regional plan 2010 and formed a committee comprising of experts to draft regional plan 2021.

The draft plan is being circulated in all the panchayats to let them study the details of the plan.

Speaker of the state legislative assembly, Pratapsingh Rane participating in the discussion on the plan on the floor of the house, urged the government to ask the chief town planner to hold meetings all over the state and finalize the plan as fast as possible.

“You cannot go on giving extensions to finalize the plan”, he said.