Goemkarponn desk
CALANGUTE: Following State-wide criticism the Village Panchayat Calangute has passed a resolution unanimously to write to concern authorities to denotify Calangute as Urban Area.
Calangute Sarpanch Shawn Martins said that the villagers had several apprehensions and they communicated the same to our ward members.
“We also thank our Hon. MLA & Minister Michael Lobo, ZP Dattaprasad Dabolkar, all our Panchayat Members and various groups like Citizen Front etc for supporting the resolution,” he said.
The villagers and activists had demanded the State government to de-notify the urban status of Calangute village. “Urbanization means destruction and taking concretization to next level.
They said the urbanization means increasing the FAR to 200 to 300, increasing taxes, more outsiders taking over and other.
They said the ‘structures have come up in fields with 80 per cent FAR, 100 per cent FAR is given to builders for construction on hills and others’ which is start of urbanization.
