A sanad which once gave a landlord or the simple land buyer of old a sense of accomplishment today has dangerous connotations. At worst it could mean doom for many villages and villagers as well battling to keep virtual gated communities out of their once charming village. But worse than that is the potential some of these sanads have for both village and villager because the outcome often is the building of yet another huge hotel complex construction as the names of many owners of these sanads mentioned in this article suggest. In other words, more migrant labourers, more traffic on the existing narrow village roads that were never intended for the current onslaught on them and more pressure on the existing unstable power supply.
As for the stress that is being put on the existing meagre potable water supply, there is really nothing more that can be said to put the water shortage problem in perspective. In other words all this put together suck the life out of your village. Says Tulio de Souza, attorney of the communidade of Guirim and an architect, "I am of the opinion that for any application for conversion above one acre (4000 sq m) and being done for commercial purposes, the Collector needs to examine whether the necessary infrastructure is available in the respective areas that would take care of the development that would follow the issuance of these sanads."
Sanads issued village-wise
Calangute -53
Soccorro -27
Candolim -23
Arpora –10
Salvador do Mundo -11
Sangolda -9
Nerul -6
Pilerne -6
Alto-Porvorim -3
Reis Magos -2
Assagao -1
Parra -1
Total -150
Alto Porvorim
A beneficiary to take note of in Alto Porvorim is Devashri Estate Developers the Dempo's construction outfit in the news recently. It got 300 sq m of land converted inside an amazing short period. The firm applied for the sanad on January 24, 2006 and was issued the sanad on April 8, 2006. A total of 4667 sq m was converted from agricultural to non-agricultural land.
Arpora
In village Arpora where a huge 1,22,115 sq m of land was converted the most conspicuous beneficiaries are Dr Fernando Jose Mascarhenas (81,726 sq mt) Prabhat Developers (1969) Riverside Home Developers (8557+5400.) Two non-Goans Shabbir AR Jhan (3850) and Kalpesh Natwarlal Gahil and Ravi Ramesh Chandra Gahil jointly converted 3300 sq m.
Calangute
In Calangute where there is little land left to build on, sanads were issued covering a total of 90,900.85 sq m of land it can safely be assumed must nearly all be prime land and accessible to roads. And as usual builders and hoteliers were behind 14 of the 23 conversions. GKP Real Estate Developers whose buildings in Calangute are ubiquitous converted a total of 1994 sq m (under two sanads.) Other land owners are DGN Resorts (1775) Ronil Hotels & Resorts (1950) Prudential Group (1725) Hindustan Hotel Ltd,. Panjim (2375) Reira Construction (2800) Nirvana Nest Buildcon (2000) New Builders & Developers (575+2991+700) Calangute Resorts (1275) Saldanha Developers (900) and Whispering Resorts (3000.) These land conversions represent 24,060 sq m of the land converted in Calangute.
Candolim
A total of 58,371.34 sq m of land was converted in this crammed village of narrow roads. As is the yardstick now builders showed the most interest. One builder Shelly Gonsalves got 1775 and 4675 sq mt converted and another 2940.34 sq m on behalf of Regal Builders. Other real estate developers with equally bigger plans are Navelkar Landmarks (1403) Phoenix Township (1310) Highland Constructions and Highland Holiday Homes (4150) Dena Karen Holiday Homes (1224) Devan Real Estate & Construction (12,733) Zephyr Holdings (2225) Tangerina Hotels (2775) and a Omprakash N Pariani (2207+2350)
Nerul
The Candolim-based builder Shelly Gonsalves also converted 6655 and 8912.50 sq m in this village next in line to be bludgeoned by builders after Calangute, Baga and Candolim.
Reis Magos
Fericem Engineering converted 8207 sq m
Salvador do Mundo
Fredric Developers converted 630 sq m, CV Constructions 2500 saq m and Navelkar Landmarks 8910 sq m.
Sangolda
Apseksha Homes 2425 sq, Tropical Estates 4546 sq m.
Socorro
Alcon Construction 15,398, RR Enterprises 1000 sq m, Acron Developers 5066 sq m and Tropical Estates (see Sangolda) 850 sq m.
Know your neighbour
In the event you want to know who your nextdoor neighbours will be, we reproduce here the survey nos. of land converted by some (only the very large land holdings) of the builders and hoteliers only. In Socorro, Alcons converted land existing under survey no 21/2. Sangolda: Topical Estates 2/11. Salvador do Mundo: Navelkar Landmarks -66/1. Reis Magos: Fericem Engineering -78/1-C. Nerul: Shelly Gonsalves 6665 sq m -11/1 & 8912.50 -5/1. Candolim: Regal Builders -149/4, Navelkar Landmarks -22/1-B, Phoenix Township -226/10 &14 part 8C part & 8D part, Highland Constructions -227/1, 227/2, Shelly Gonsalves 4675 sq m -224/2, 1775 sq m -10/1, Devan Real Estate -224/1 & 223/8, Zephyr Holdings 2225 sq -179/6 & 3150 sq m -208/3, Tangerina Hotels -138/13-D, 135/2 & 3.
(Note: Herald cannot find out if buildings have already been built on these lands as the Right To Information data provided only the applicants name, area, survey no, location, description of the forest/trees and the sanad application and issue date.)
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