Panaji: State Cabinet today approved amendment to the Town and country planning act to allow department to consider the genuine applications received for zonal change.
The amendment also speaks about introducing accommodation reservation and transferable development rights in the planning process.
TCP Minister Vijai Sardesai said that the amendments will be introduced during the upcoming monsoon session of the State assembly.
Sardesai said that department is introducing section 16B to the Act. “In a bid to take up zonal change on case to case basis, the existing act had no provision and hence, the Law department opined that we should go for amendment,” he said.
Sardesai said that with Regional Plan 2021 being put in operation, we have been receiving complaints about arbitrary zonal change in the land use plan.
“In this RP 21 there is injustice in the name of rationalization,” he said, while refusing to speak anything on the RP 21 controversy stating ‘the fate of RP21 will be decided by the House’.
Further, Minister informed about introducing three new definitions- Accommodation reservation, TDR for short term and TDR for posterity.
