It's not urbanisation, it's town census, clairfies Mauvin

20 Feb 2020 07:15 PM

After a huge public uproar over notifying some villages as urban areas, government has withdrawn the controversial notification. And now panchayat minister Mauvin Godinho says it was a wording mistake. They were actually census towns. After population crosses 5000, it becomes a census town.



Goa government had issued a notification declaring 56 villages of Goa as urban villages.


The gram sabhas were up in arms against this notification They had termed this move to hand over village land to land mafias.


After uproar Chief Minister had withdrawn the notification.  


Reporter: HIru Mahale | Desk: Sameep Narvekar



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