PANJIM: Save Our Fields in Taleigao (SOFT) a newly formed group today demanded that a village development plan as per the constitutional mandate should be done with immediate effect.
SOFT has also said that Taleigao Village Panchayat should withdraw all permissions/licenses granted to builders for construction in low lying paddy fields.
Addressing the media, SOFT’s member Advocate Pundalik Naik said, “the low lying paddy fields have been given protection in the regional plan 2001 and 2021 as well through the gran Sabha resolutions that were all unanimously passed by the members of the gram sabha.”
He said, “The people of taleigao for last many years have worked tirelessly to preserve the fields as well as to support their families economically.”
He further said that a village developmental plan should be done as per constitutional mandate with immediate effect.
“We demand that all building constructions in low lying paddy fields within village pakchayat area of Taleigao should be immediately halted.” Naik added
Meanwhile, SOFT has made a representation to the Chief Minister Dr Pramod Sawant about the destruction of low lying paddy fields in Taleigao Village due to unplanned development.
