Yuri alleges multi-crore scam in which buildings are inserted in survey plans
Opposition leader Yuri Alemao on Wednesday alleged a multi-crore scam in the directorate of settlement and land records amounting to Rs 300 crore. Department officials inserted over 400 structures into survey plans to facilitate development in CRZ and no-development zones, he said.
Alemao demanded that a judicial inquiry be ordered, headed by a retired judge, and an SIT be set up to examine this process. He said an FIR should be filed and the officials involved should be suspended. 'I demand that govt issue a white paper on the insertion of doubtful structures. These entries must be frozen, and the TCP department, panchayats and CRZ authorities should be subjected to re-verification,' he said.
While CM Pramod Sawant said he would conduct an inquiry, revenue minister Atanasio 'Babush' Monserrate said that the structures included in the survey plan were reverted and govt would conduct an inquiry.
He said lower staff did the mischief of inserting the structures on the survey plan.
Earlier, Alemao said, 'A multi-crore land scam has unfolded... The directorate of settlement and land records... is at the centre of large-scale manipulation. This racket involves the fraudulent insertion of structures into official survey plans using BhuNaksha software.'
He alleged that more than 400 structures were added predominantly in CRZ and the prime coastal belt using digital tools.
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These were illegally added to survey plans without physical verification or following any transparent and legal protocol.
'The going rate for one plot is said to be over Rs 1 crore for 300-400sqm plots, making this a Rs 300-crore scam. Private parties used this insertion to repair and construct by falsely presenting them as pre-existing structures,' Alemao said.
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