PANAJI:
Trinamool Congress (TMC) on Tuesday launched another scheme ‘Mhaje Ghar, Maalki Hakk’ in Goa, promising to provide housing at a subsidised rate to about 50,000
Goans
who do not have houses. The 50,000 Goans identified by
TMC will be provided with 250 sq m of plot each. TMC also declared to implement the tenancy and Mundkar laws in toto.
TMC’s alliance partner, MGP president Deepak Dhavalikar, was also present along with TMC’s Luizinho Faleiro and Churchill Alemao, among others
TMC functionary Kiran Kandolkar said that the scheme was drafted after studying the plight of Goans who are without homes. It is a “landmark housing rights scheme” that aims at securing the housing rights of Goenkars, he said. Under the scheme, the TMC-MGP alliance will ensure that within 250 days of forming the government, all Goan families residing in Goa before 1976 will be provided title and ownership rights of land under possession, and 50,000 subsidised homes will be given to
homeless
families, Yatish Naik told reporters.
Naik also said they would ensure that landlords were not affected, and that they would be adequately compensated. In addition, TMC will operationalise pro-people legislations such as the Goa Daman and Diu Agricultural Tenancy Act, 1964, and The Goa Daman & Diu Mundkars (Protection from eviction) Act, 1975, on the ground, and take the cause further.