Protests Spiral, As Amendment To Planning Law Accelerates Goa’s Urban Sprawl & Devastates Its Lush Commons In 2024, more than 20 times more land in Goa was converted from farm, forest, orchard and protected area to concrete urban sprawl than in the previous 37 years, thanks to a quiet tweak the state gover...

In <18 months, tweaks to #Goa’s planning laws cleared 22+ sq m of fields, farms & forests for luxury homes & resorts by builders like #Bhutani & #DeltaCorp. Thousands of trees felled, locals left battling waste & water crises.

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