PANAJI: CM Pramod Sawant said on Monday that the high court set aside the construction license to the Tamnar transmission project on a technical ground, and that the panchayat would issue a fresh construction license to it after a proper resolution.
He also said that the order wasn’t a setback to the state government, and that the panchayat had hurriedly granted permissiont to the project.
Asked if the panchayat may not give permission to the project due to pressure from the public and NGOs, the chief minister said that the people of Mollem support the project, and that the permission will be granted.
Meanwhile, advocate general Devidas Pangam said that the panchayat issued the license without a resolution, and thus the high court set it aside.
“There is no need for a gram sabha to grant permission to the project,” Pangam said. “According to the law, it cannot go to the gram sabha. The panchayat body has the power to grant construction licenses.”