Farmers threaten protest over Mapusa ODP

SALIGAO: Mapusa Farmers Association has threatened to hold an agitation outside the municipality as a mark of protest for allegedly excluding their names from the town’s outline development plan (ODP).
The president of the association, Sanjay Barde, alleged that the Mapusa Municipal Council (MMC) along with the elected representatives of all seven constituencies in Bardez were responsible for the exclusion of farmers’ names from the new Mapusa ODP.
“The farmers sacrificed most of their fields for the town’s development, but the MMC, instead of being grateful, has excluded their names from the new OPD,” alleged Barde.
Among those present at the meeting were Congress North Goa district president Vijay Bhike and president of Camarkhazan Farmers Association John Lobo.