By our special correspondent

Panaji (Goa) The four-member sub-committee of the Town and Country Planning (TCP) department headed by Minister Vijay Sardessai today failed to reach to any conclusion as far as deletion of village panchayat of Curca-Bambolim- Talaulim from the Greater Panjim Planning and Development Authority (GPPDA) is concerned.

While the villagers demanded complete removal of the villages from the planning area, the committee wants to retain the Bambolim plateau.

“The meeting remained inconclusive. We have not reached to any conclusion and hence the village areas continue to be part of GPPDA,” Sardessai told reporters after the meeting.

He said that broadly there is acceptance that those village areas should not have been included other than what is the plateau. The villagers are not ready to accept that.

“Agreeing to the villagers demand, I could actually say drop the plateau also but then it is not the principle of the development,” he added.

 “I can agree to whatever villagers say but I cannot agree that the principle of planning has to be thrown in the dustbin. Then I am not doing justice to the position I am holding. Then I am surrendering for no reason. I am willing to surrender to logic not to illogic. There is no logic when u go against universal logic that says that the plateau with sufficient infrastructure should be receiving zones and should go for vertical development,” Minister commented.