In what appears to be a move to woo voters before the state assembly elections 2017, chief minister Laxmikant Parsekar on Tuesday said that the state government will issue an ordinance before the monsoon session of the Goa legislative assembly to regularize illegal housing structures. The monsoon session of the assembly is scheduled to be of around three weeks. Once the ordinance is issued, the government will have to pass the illegal structure bill in the assembly, within six months. Speaking to reporters, Parsekar said the process of getting the advocate general’s advice and law department clearence to regularize illegal structures is in progress. The government had been toying with the proposal for nearly a year now. Illegal structures that will be considered for regularizing fall in three categories, the chief minister said. The first category is of those persons who have built a house on their own property and have approached authorities for regularization. Second is of those persons who have constructed a house on their ancestral property and the third is of those who have built a house after obtaining an NOC from their landlord. Houses constructed along road setback and within coastal regulation zone (CRZ) violation will not be considered. For those houses built on government and communidade land, concerned authorities will have to take the decision, Parsekar said. Parsekar had said that there would be three categories to regularize house, first category would be of persons who have already built a house in their own property and approached the authority then his house would be considered for regularization. Second would be any person who have constructed a house on his ancestral property would be considered for regularization and third category would be that if he has constructed house by taking NOC of a landlord then his house would be considered for regularization. Any houses which have come up along the roadside set back and in CRZ would not be regularized, he had further said that those house which have come up on government and communidade the respective authorities have to take a decision.
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