Unauthorised construction: Govt sets March 2025 deadline to clear 5,500 pending regularisation cases

ADDITIONAL COLLECTOR-I TASKED WITH OVERSEEING PROGRESS, SUBMIT MONTHLY REPORTS

With over 5,500 applications pending for decision under Goa Regularisation of Unauthorised Construction Act, 2016, the State government has directed Deputy Collectors cum the competent authorities to dispose of all the cases by March 2025, as assured by the Chief Minister Pramod Sawant in his Budget 2024-25.

A Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) laid down by the Revenue Department, has also specified that ownership dispute with Court order should be the only ground for rejection of the application and that dispute without judicial order, does not amount to rejection.

The department has also said that if a Mundkar has reconstructed their houses on the same plinth area as the original structures, benefits under the Goa Mundkars Act 1975 should be considered.