Protest meeting by GGRM

Villagers from all over Goa joined the protest of Ganv Ghor Rakhon Manch on Monday the 23rd of March 2009 at 10 am outside the Junta House, Panaji, to make the un-negotiable demand for the withdrawal of Bill No. 4 of 2009 amending section 47 of the Goa Panchayat Raj Act 1994.
Besides the said Amendment, there are other legal irregularities committed by the Government like the Amendments to 16 & 16A of the TCP Act 1974, the Land Acquisition Ordinance of 2009, not only have been introduced to alter the age old institutions of Local Self Governance (Panchayat Institutions) but also leave scope for un-restricted abuse and corruption by a few with vested interests.
Furthermore, the GGRM points out that the entire Regional Plan process is happening outside of a legal framework, making the process extremely arbitrary and therefore bad in law. GGRM while welcoming a Regional Plan process asserts that the demands of the Goan people was first for a system of genuine local self-governance where the people through the Panchayats would be able to play a significant role. Rather than amend the TCP Act and harmonize it with the Goa Panchayati Raj Act, the Government has sought to fool the people by initiating the arbitrary Regional Plan process. On the contrary has persisted to change laws to allow for arbitrariness and misrule, a situation against the interests of the people of Goa.
here are a few photos of the protest