HC quashes ODPs for 5 villages, asks Goa govt to follow RP 2021
In a major setback to the TCP department's plans for allowing construction activities in the North Goa coastal belt, the Bombay high court on Monday set aside govt's ODPs or outline development plans for five villages and directed state to follow Regional Plan 2021 for approval of plans and grant of permissions in these villages.
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The two ODPs — Calangute-Candolim and Arpora-Nagoa-Parra — cannot operate and the five villages of Calangute, Candolim, Arpora, Nagoa, and Parra will not be governed by them, a division bench comprising justices Bharati Dangre and Nivedita Mehta ruled.
However, on the request of state govt, the HC stayed the implementation of its own judgment for four weeks, subject to govt ensuring that no permissions be granted and no construction or development take place in the five villages.
The high court order on the ODPs comes after a series of legal back and forth with even the matter reaching the Supreme Court as the TCP department desperately tried to defend its implementation.
The apex court flagged it off as a serious issue of unbridled construction when hearing a special leave petition by state govt against Bombay HC's order restraining construction based on the ODPs, Supreme Court justice Satish Chandra Sharma, while dismissing the SLP, said: 'Please don't turn Goa into a concrete jungle.'
From issuing circulars to even an Ordinance, state govt has been trying hard to keep alive the ODPs despite initially suspending it due to large scale illegalities. But in between all the legal wrangles, the TCP department went ahead with zone changes on its own.
The chief town planner even issued a circular taking away all the powers from the North Goa Planning and Development Authority (NGPDA) and directing that the TCP would issue clearances for development and zoning certificates.
The circular was never notified but merely circulated among the district collectors, town planning officials and registrars among others.
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