Goa govt relocates village from National Park

Capping up a decade-long exercise, Goa government has completely relocated a cluster of houses from state’s National park, a senior official said. Nandran, a village on the periphery of National Park at Mollem in south Goa, was taken up for rehabilitation in 1997. “Entire settlement has been shifted outside the national park ending a decade-long process, this year,” deputy conservator of forest, Debendra Dalai told PTI.

The rehabilitation process was carried out with a Central government package worth around Rs 2.5 crore, Dalai said. All the 14 households were compensated for their land and cultivation and also given alternate plots to construct new houses, he said. An area of 10,000 sq metres each was allotted to them outside the park to build their houses, Dalai said.