Manohar Parrikar accused of land grab in Goa for ministry

Manohar Parrikar accused of land grab in Goa for ministry

FPJ BureauUpdated: Friday, May 31, 2019, 11:53 PM IST
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New Delhi : Goa’s Congress MP Shantaram Naik on Saturday accused Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar of not helping the state as a Goan to make the Indian Navy release at least part of its unauthorisedly occupied land at Dabolim to enable expansion and upgradation of the Dabolim Airport by the Airport Authority of India (AAI).

He alleged that Parrikar was rather promoting further land grab in Goa by his ministry. He condemned the defence minister for allegedly coaxing the Goa Industrial Development Corporation to allocate 6 lakh square metres of land to the ministry at Naqueri in Quepem in South Goa district for setting up a permanent venue for Defexpo and Aero India shows.

Naik terms Parrikar”s latest act as anti-Goa, noting that he was well aware as a former Goa chief minister about scarcity of land in Goa because of which the state does not encourage big industrial units and opposed the Special Economic Zones promoted by v

He said it is no secret that hundreds of acres of land were seized by the defence ministry for the Naval base without paying any cost and it further acquired Anjadiv island from the state government citing defence needs. Navy even tried to take over two other islands off the Vasco coast, but for the effective public resistance, he said.

The Congress MP narrated how the defence ministry had usurped huge land belonging to the state government and Communidades, without undertaking the land acquisition, to set up the Naval airport immediately after Goa”s liberation.

He said 1687.51 acres of land was in illegal possession of the ministry at Dabolim. Parrikar skirted his pointed questions twice in December and February in the Rajya Sabha when he wanted to know if his ministry has any sanction, gift deed, purchase deed or any other document to claim ownership or if it ever produced any documents before the authorities for mutation of land under the Goa Land Revenue Code.

Naik said no reply has been furnished till date.

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