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Porvorim: The Town and Country Planning ( TCP ) board, on Wednesday, formally approved the removal of all 10 contentious villages from the Greater Panaji Planning and Development Authority, while choosing to retain Taleigao and stretches of Kadamba plateau as planning areas. We should have an act that meets the challenges of the present day. So we are in the process of amending the act also. But these amendments will come in the assembly,” the minister said.Sardesai did subtly express his irritation with the protestors and said that the right forum to object or recommend policy decisions was in the legislative assembly though he did say that every person had “democratic right to go on a hunger strike.”“But paralysis cannot be allowed,” he said. Sardesai insisted that the board’s decision was not based on the protests.“These decisions have been taken not because we have been forced or because of an agitation, but because we feel that what is good for the state has to be good for the people,” the minister said.The agitators had also demanded that the government amend the Town and Country Planning Act to include the 73rd and 74th amendments, also something that Sardesai appears to have paid attention to.“There are demands that the Town and Country Planning Act should be amended because it was framed in 1974..