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NGT Penalizes Goa CZMA in Sand Mining Violations

Representative AI image PANAJI: The National Green Tribunal (NGT) has imposed a Rs 50,000 penalty on the Goa Coastal Zone Management Authority (GCZMA) for repeatedly requesting extensions to file replies in ongoing sand mining cases. The tribunal highlighted that GCZMA had been allowed four weeks to submit its response but failed to do so, even after a reminder in August of last year. “We are granting one week’s time for them to file their affidavit, contingent on the payment of Rs 50,000 to the National Green Tribunal Bar Association, Western Zone Bench, considering that 12 matters had to be postponed…

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Goa CZMA: CRZ Structures Must Be Contained for Mundkar Houses

Representative AI image PANAJI: The Goa Coastal Zone Management Authority (GCZMA) has mandated the demolition of a house that was illegally expanded in the no-development zone along the Sal river in Velim. The authority referenced the CRZ Notification of 1991, highlighting its ‘doctrine of containment,’ which allows for toleration of existing structures but prohibits any extension beyond their original dimensions. The GCZMA noted that the original structure, a mundkarial house, was no longer intact, having been entirely rebuilt with extensions both horizontally and vertically. They asserted that, due to these modifications, the authority deemed the structure in violation of regulations…

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Paying house tax alone doesn’t legalize structures: GCZMA

PANAJI: The Goa Coastal Zone Management Authority (GCZMA) has issued orders for the demolition of several illegal structures, including beach shacks and unauthorized extensions to hotels and resorts, along the turtle nesting beach of Agonda in Canacona. The GCZMA clarified that paying house tax to the local panchayat does not legitimize a structure. It stated that house tax collection is merely for revenue purposes and does not serve as evidence of a structure’s legality. The GCZMA received a complaint last year regarding “rampant illegal construction” aimed at commercial benefits within the CRZ area of Agonda, which is designated as a…