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Govt has embarked on exercise to integrate Regional Plan with cadastral plan to streamline land valuation: Cabral

| JANUARY 25, 2020, 05:03 AM IST

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MARGAO

The government has embarked on an ambitious, but voluminous exercise to  integrate the Regional Plan with the cadastral plan in order to  streamline valuation of land in the State.

Law Minister Nilesh  Cabral further said the government will increase the existing valuation  of the land by 20 per cent, with a provision to enhance the valuation by  five per cent every year.

Addressing the national seminar on  contemporary valuation scenario and specialised valuation standard  training organised by the IOV Registered Valuers Foundation in  association with the Institution of Valuers, Goa Branch at the Ravindra Bhavan, Margao, on Friday, the Law Minister further said he has set on a  programme to streamline the Department of Registration for the benefit of  the citizens.

“Each and every plot of land will be valued with the  help of a survey plan and sub-division. To start with, this will be done  with the help of the Revenue department. Registration process should be very easy. Value of land has not been revised as the prevailing rates  are applicable from 2013-20 for the purpose of valuation,” he said.

Cabral  said the department has mooted a 20 per cent increase in the valuation  of the existing rates, with a provision that the rates will be valued by  five per cent every year.

Conceding that many factors have affected  valuation of land, the Law Minister has mooted simplication of the  process by integrating the Regional Plan and the Cadastral plan of Goa.  “The value of a particular land will depend on the proximity of the land  to the national highway, State highway, roads, towns and other  amenities. All these factors will be worked out,” he said.

While saying that it is voluminous in nature, Cabral  said the officials are trying to get the real value of the land by  putting a mechanism in place.

Addressing the seminar, CTP, James Mathew informed the valuers that the RP 2021  is in force in the State of Goa.

On farm land, Mathew informed that  the government has stuck to its 2018 decision that there should not be  any sub-division of agricultural land below 20,000 sq mtrs. “The  government had taken the decision in 2018 after it came to light that  large tracts of agricultural land was being bought by people from  outside the State to sub-divide them into 4,000 sq mtrs area plots  by taking advantage of the farm house provision,” he said.

He later said that the farm house provision still exists and is applicable for plots sub-divided before 2018, no new sub-division of  agricultural land below 20,000 square metres is allowed by the government.
Tenancy land remains a tenanted land: CTP


MARGAO:  Chief Town Planner James Mathew on Friday cautioned that a tenancy land  remains a tenanted land and cannot be exploited for settlement or other  commercial purpose even if such a land finds mention in the settlement  zone in a development plan or zone.

Addressing the valuers at the  national seminar on Friday, Mathew warned that just because a tenanted  land finds mention in the settlement zone for whatever reason does not  bestow any right on the tenant or any other person to develop the land  for settlement. 

“The law is very clear that a tenanted land cannot be  used for any other purpose except agriculture. A zone or development  plan may show the tenanted land as settlement for whatever reason, but  it will remain a tenanted land,” he cautioned.


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