Show cause notice

IN Media Watch Briefs | 19/04/2013

In her written reply tabled in the Goa Assembly on April 17, Minister for Environment Alina Saldanha said the Goa Coastal Zone Management Authority has issued show cause notices to 131 persons including Dr. Prannoy Roy, promoter of New Delhi Television, along with Anthony Fonseca. Notice has been issued to the duo after a “public complaint” filed against them for “illegal construction of a structure/hotel project, illegal cutting of sand dunes, illegal road being built to the beach illegal excavation” within 100-200 mt of a no development zone fringing the Calangute beach. (From Mayabhushan Nagvenkar)

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