Panaji: Tenants in the new market complex of the Municipal Corporation Panaji Those who have failed to comply with the leave and license agreement will be given an eviction notice to vacate their premises. Of the 446 tenants who were working rent-free, only 19 have come forward to sign the agreement after the Panaji city corporation (CCP) started the process from October 2021.
“We have taken legal opinion in this regard and hence will go ahead with the eviction. We have every right to carry out the process of eviction under the Public Premises (Eviction of Unauthorized Occupants) Act, 1958. If they fail to comply, we will send eviction notices with the help of local authorities and close their shutters, CCP commissioner Agnello Fernandes told TOI.
“Out of the 19 applications we received for signing leave and license agreements, only one has been processed. The rest are in the process of shifting the place in their name from their parents or relatives,” said the chairman of the CCP market committee, Pramay Mainkar,
TOI had earlier reported that the CCP has identified tenants who were working rent-free in the premises. Public Interest Litigations (public interest litigationfiled in the High Court of Bombay in Goa in July 2017) had given the corporation a period of one year to recover the arrears of rent/license fee and initiate action against the illegal occupants.
The government-appointed ND Agarwal Committee, in its report in 2013, said that 80% of those living in the market complex were illegal. Most of the occupants in the new market were not on the list of tenants of the old market, it said.
“We have taken legal opinion in this regard and hence will go ahead with the eviction. We have every right to carry out the process of eviction under the Public Premises (Eviction of Unauthorized Occupants) Act, 1958. If they fail to comply, we will send eviction notices with the help of local authorities and close their shutters, CCP commissioner Agnello Fernandes told TOI.
“Out of the 19 applications we received for signing leave and license agreements, only one has been processed. The rest are in the process of shifting the place in their name from their parents or relatives,” said the chairman of the CCP market committee, Pramay Mainkar,
TOI had earlier reported that the CCP has identified tenants who were working rent-free in the premises. Public Interest Litigations (public interest litigationfiled in the High Court of Bombay in Goa in July 2017) had given the corporation a period of one year to recover the arrears of rent/license fee and initiate action against the illegal occupants.
The government-appointed ND Agarwal Committee, in its report in 2013, said that 80% of those living in the market complex were illegal. Most of the occupants in the new market were not on the list of tenants of the old market, it said.
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