11-08-2013 … Everything seems to be not going between the mayor of the corporation city of Panjim surendra furtado and ccp commissioner sanjit rodrigues on wednesay said that it was difficult to shift each and every government offices from the city which could deprive ccp from generating its revenue from people entering Panjim doing shopping and trading if every offices were moved out of the capital city
It may be noted that the Corporation of the City of Panaji last Wednesday had resolved to shift all the government offices in the city to EDC Patto Plaza area or in Porvorim in view of the rising congestion and traffic jams in the city.
The resolution was passed at the recent monthly meeting of the CCP after which CCP mayor Surendra Furtado had said that shifting of the government offices would decrease 70 per cent of traffic in the city.
Speaking on the sidelines of the Draft Master Plan for the holistic development of Panjim city ccp commissioner sanjit rodrigues said everything like schools and government officers were required in the city while preparing the master plan
Sanjit said The Draft Master Plan for the holistic development of Panjim could take as many as 15 years to be implemented in all respects, if accepted by the government and consistently followed up,
Meanwhile ccp mayor surendra furtado said that ccp commissioner was a bureaucrat who did not had to bother about the citizens of Panjim while he was a social worker and a politician who was thinking for the development of the capital city and its citizens