PANJIM: First, it was IT park at Socorro that was in the news for the wrong reasons and now IT habitat at Dona Paula inaugurated by Congress president Sonia Gandhi faces a similar fate.
Nitoll Jinn Trust, an NGO, has approached the High Court challenging the absence of procedure in the allotment of plots at Dona Paula, even as they made it clear that they are not against the setting up of an IT habitat.
The petitioners have stated that if there are more applications than the plots available, then the criteria for selection and allotment of the plots to the applicant have to be declared beforehand. However, in the case of It habitat at Dona Paula, Info Tech Corporation of Goa Limited has no cr iteria of evaluation of various applicants and the allotments are arbitrary, alleged the petitioner.
They have further in their petition stated that there is no provision in the scheme to ensure that the developers of the property sell or lease their properties only to IT or IT related companies -- – ITES (Information Technology Enabled Services, though it is called a IT habitat. The petitioners stated that considering that the lands have been allotted, considerably below the market price, there should have been some conditions to ensure that the final benefit of this subsidy goes to IT or ITES. But there is no such provision and therefore the petitioners have prayed to cancel all the allotments and direct InfoTech Corporation of Goa Limited to follow proper procedures in allotment of plots.
The petitioners have said that IT is a human resource based activity and not a land based activity and development of IT doesn't require allotment of such huge plots. Info Tech Corporation of Goa Limited should take into consideration the experience of other states and allot only that much land required for a given IT activity, the petitioners added.
The Court has given two weeks time to serve notice on Info Tech Corporation of Goa Limited.
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