Summary:
Relief is also sought for safeguarding tenants’ rights under the Agricultural Tenancy Act, 1964 and effective implementation of the Goa Land Use Act, 1991. The PIL seeks protection of khazan land, mangroves and the coastal environment along the Chapora tidal river in Agarwada, Pernem, North Goa. It also pointed out that the sale deeds were executed in 2014 for lands which are either tenanted or government land.The petitioner has sought a direction to the state registrar-cum-head of notary services requiring that no agreement of sale or deed of conveyance involving agricultural land be henceforth registered in Goa before verifying the status of tenancy in Manual Form 1&14 as of 1975. PANAJI: The high court of Bombay at Goa issued a notice on Monday to government authorities as well as a Kolkata-based real estate company in connection with a project which is allegedly coming up on tenanted/CRZ land at Agarwada village in Pernem A division bench of the high court, comprising Justice N M Jamdar and Justice Prithviraj Chavan, issued the notice on a PIL filed by Goa Foundation, a voluntary organisation .The PIL challenges the approvals granted for alleged illegal diversion of agricultural tenanted lands. The petitioner said approvals were granted to the private party by several authorities for a large project which involves fencing of the property on a comprehensive scale, changing the nature of the khazan, depriving villagers traditional access to the river and permanent destruction of salt pans, paddy fields, mangroves and khazan lands.The petitioner also objected to approvals for reconstruction of a house which it claimed did not exist but it is now shown to exist through an alleged illegal “re-survey” of land done on orders from the deputy collector and sub-divisional office, Pernem..