{"id":8437,"date":"2011-01-21T16:16:19","date_gmt":"2011-01-21T10:46:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.in\/news\/?p=8437"},"modified":"2011-01-21T16:16:19","modified_gmt":"2011-01-21T10:46:19","slug":"criminal-complainant-against-kamat-over-goa-land-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/criminal-complainant-against-kamat-over-goa-land-policy","title":{"rendered":"Criminal complainant against Kamat over Goa land policy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.in\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/Digambar-Kamat.bmp\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"8438\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/criminal-complainant-against-kamat-over-goa-land-policy\/digambar-kamat\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2011\/01\/Digambar-Kamat.bmp\" data-orig-size=\"\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"[]\" data-image-title=\"Digambar Kamat\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Digambar Kamat &lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2011\/01\/Digambar-Kamat.bmp\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2011\/01\/Digambar-Kamat.bmp\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-8438\" title=\"Digambar Kamat\" src=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.in\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/Digambar-Kamat.bmp\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>Over 50 civic rights roups and a section of the clergy in Goa Friday filed a criminal complaint against Chief Minister Digambar Kamat and eight other members of a high-level committee for illegally creating eco tourism zones in concert with land sharks.<\/p>\n<p>Members of the Pilerne Citizens Forum (PCF), Ganv Ghor Rakhon Manch (GGRM), Goenche Xetkarancho Ekvott, Colva Citizens Forums (CCF) accuse Kamat, top government officials and architects who were part of a state level committee (SLC) formed to chart out a futuristic land use document called the Regional Plan 2021, of &#8220;cheating, misrepresentation, mischief and criminal conspiracy&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Kamat and the SLC have created and approved eco tourism zones where land has already been purchased by real estate companies,&#8221; said Father Bismarque Dias, whose Goenche Xetkarancho Ekvott is backed by the Catholic Church in Goa.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The eco-tourism zones are carved out in such a way that they will benefit some hotel developers. It&#8217;s clear that eco tourism zones are created in the regional plan in the spaces which are already purchased by hoteliers,&#8221; Yatish Naik, convenor of Pilerne Citizens Forum leading the conglomeration of NGOs, said at a press conference Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Goa&#8217;s civic society activists have been protesting against the rampant concretization of the state, especially under Kamat whose Congress-led coalition government has been the subject of unending controversies and corruption, especially relating to mega land intensive projects.<\/p>\n<p>The complaint was filed at the Panaji police station after a large group of civic rights activists marched to the police station in a show of strength against what they claimed were &#8220;abusive and anti-people land use policies&#8221; of the Congress-led coalition government in Goa.<\/p>\n<p>A police officer at the Panaji police station said that the complaint by the civic rights groups had been received, but said a first information report (FIR) had not yet been filed against the chief minister.<\/p>\n<p>Goa&#8217;s civic society, especially the Goa Church, over the last few years has actively resisted the rampant concretization of the state, especially the coastal areas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over 50 civic rights roups and a section of the clergy in Goa Friday filed a criminal complaint against Chief Minister Digambar Kamat and eight other members of a high-level committee for illegally creating eco tourism zones in concert with land sharks. 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