Business Standard: Panaji: Tuesday,
October 25, 2016.
Goa Forward
Party today accused Aam Aadmi Party's state convener Elvis Gomes and BJP MLA
Glenn Ticlo of being involved in a number of scams in the state-run Housing
Board and said it will approach the Lokayukta over this issue.
"We have
procured documents under the Right to Information Act exposing a series of
scams allegedly unleashed by Gomes as the managing director and BJP MLA Glenn
Ticlo as the chairman of the Board.
"We are
going to file a case before the Goa Lokayukta next week," Goa Forward
Party spokesperson Durgadas Kamat said, adding the party will
"expose" the "nexus" between Ticlo and Gomes in the Housing
Board, during the week.
Gomes,
serving as Inspector General of Prisons besides being Managing Director of the
Housing Board, had opted for voluntary retirement to contest on AAP ticket from
Cuncolim constituency in South Goa for next year's Legislative Assembly polls.
Producing the
papers, which he said were procured under the RTI Act, Kamat alleged that Gomes
and Ticlo had allotted several residential apartments to people under Housing
Board's projects at Curti (North Goa) and Rumdamol-Davorlim (South Goa) without
any bidding process.
"The
Housing Board had directly allotted the flats to the people merely on the basis
of application. The rules of the Board mention that the applicant has to apply
online, pay the required fee and will be chosen from the lot. All these rules
were bypassed by the Board," Kamat claimed.
He also
alleged that the plots referred to the Board after the beneficiaries concerned
failed to construct houses there, were reverted to the beneficiaries in
violation of the norms.
"We
smell a major scam in the entire dealing. We want Lokayukta to investigate
whether there were any underhand dealings on this," Kamat said.
Gomes and
Ticlo were not available for comments.
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