Private Communidade not Governed by State

Laws-Gauncars first,NGO

Panjim: Gauncars First an NGO committed to protecting the rights of indigenous goans, has in a representation made to the Chief Secretary , Government of Goa, Mr.J.P. Singh, condemned the proposal put forward by the Porvorim Residents Welfare Association (PRWA) that had sought Municipality status for Porvorim.

Gauncars First (GF) claimed that the Government had no legal or constitutional authority to impose any laws or Acts enacted by the State on any Private Comunidade Village in Goa and hence the issue of bringing Porvorim under the Municipality Act did not arise.

A Representation was also dispatched to Mr. Juino D’Souza, Secretary of the PRWA and a ‘Gaunkar’ of Serula Comunidade, urging him not to pursue such acts of demanding State made organs as Municipality in Porvorim or in any Comunidade Village as it amounts ‘ to atrocities against the natives of Goa and their private laws which stand recognised by the State’. GF appealed to Mr.D’Souza to join the Gaunkary Movement and save native Goans from ethnocide. It is also, learnt that a mailing campaign has been launched by concerned Gaunkars and Goans pleading with the PRWA not to perpetrate atrocities against Comunidades and native Goans.

In another Petition, Gauncars First, had appealed to Goa Industrialist, Mr. Dattaraj Salgaocar of Salgaocar Group of Companies ‘not to perpetrate atrocities and crimes against the Gaunkars and Comunidades of Goa’. The Appeal came in the wake of reports that Salgaocar would be setting up a Special Economic Zone (SEZ) or some such Industrial activity in Socorro, near Porvorim.

The NGO called upon Salgaocar ‘ to consider the plight of the natives of Goa who have been victimised by every successive State Government by illegally occupying and imposing State made laws and Bodies in Private Comunidade Villages in blatant violation of law’. GF asserted that there is no provision for anyone to set up any SEZ, IT Park etc, within the Comunidade Villages in Goa when these villages do not fall within the term ‘ Revenue Villages’ for any State made laws, acts or bodies to be applicable.

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