Mr Shantaram Naik ex-M.P. and Goa PCC President said in a statement issued today that the Goa Government should   examine the legality of issue whether a sub-registrar will be legally entitled to insists on personal presence of a party for execution of a deed of transfer as law stands today, and also,  whether any amendment to concerned law can be brought in for the purpose  of requiring personal presence of the parties, and that government should not fool Goa Forward Leaders , and consequently, 

  Mr Naik said if such a law can  be brought in ,  it will be ideal,  but then,  legal status of document of Power of Attorney, all over India will have to be changed.

Mr Naik  said that Parrikar Government has made U-turn in the matter of protecting Goans’ land in past , and therefore, he feels, he will betray Goa Forward  and will not try to enact a fool-proof legislation to protect NRI land.

  Mr Naik said that although spirit behind Mr Vijay Sardesai’s proposal is good,  Mr Sardesai  should first question Mr Parrikar as to why he made a U-turn in the matter of Special Status for Goa when Goa Assembly had passed a resolution requesting the Central Government that Special provisions be made under article 371  of  the Constitution.

  Mr Naik said that the BJP Government has still not made effective amendments to the Land Revenue Code to amend the mutation and partition provisions, for speedy disposal of such cases,  which is required not only  in the interest of NRIs but very much needed  in the interest of common people of Goa

Mr Naik said that Congress had demanded that the there should be only one authority to deal with  mutation and partition cases,  but the Government has refused look into the matter.

   Mr Naik said that  although many cases must have taken place where people holding power of attorney might have sold properties without informing the owners, or must have sold the properties , taking advantage of similarity of names or even when donor of power attorney has expired, it is strange that,  so far, government have not reported such matters to police and asked them to investigate into such cases and file FIRs against the culprits?

   Besides, on  Government website   ‘Dharniraksh , where  along with Form I and IVX ,  the survey maps were available , are not available for many months now  and, therefore, NRIs who visit Goa for a short duration and who could have obtained details of their properties from abroad, have been inconvenienced.

   Mr Naik said that the government should request the courts through their Advocate General, to give priority to the cases wherever NRIs are parties.

  Mr Naik has appealed to the Government a prior publicity to any draft bill on the subject , if they intend to introduce any.