Goemkarponn desk
PANAJI: Tamnar has moved the Supreme Court of India to exempt it from the Court’s order to restrain the conversion of land in excess of 1 hectare and have a canopy density of 10% for its Sangod sub-station location.
The PIL filed by Goa Foundation and some landowners has been adjourned for April 6. The Court has granted the respondents – central government, Goa government and Tamnar project contractor- time to file objections by March 22.
The petitioners have stated that the Goa government is unaware of the alignment and the ecological and social havoc it involves, as the minutes of the expert body meetings of the CEA at which the project was approved indicate that the Goa government remained unrepresented.
The five landowners include Gajanan Vasant Sawaiker, Antonio Mario Barreto, Vishwasrao Desai, Vishwanath Krishna Deveshekar and Josephine Fernandes, and Goa Foundation, who have challenged the possible destruction of 22,140 trees on private lands.
