Maharashtra: Inspection at Dapoli resort land linked to Sena minister

NAVI MUMBAI: A joint team headed by a regional director, Nagpur office, Ministry of Environment and Forests Climate Change (MoEFCC), and state government officials, including officials of the Maharashtra Coastal Zone Management Authority (MCZMA), on Saturday visited the resort land in Murud village, Dapoli, Ratnagiri district, where a part of the land was sold by state transport minister Anil Parab.
The team had held a meeting with the district revenue officials on the issue.
The building plan was not approved by the Ratnagiri town planner while Parab had applied for the measurement and had even paid house and street light taxes to the gram panchayat concerned.
Ratnagiri collectorate officials said the joint team was headed by Dr Sureshkumar Adapa, regional director, coastal area CRZ management, Nagpur, MoEFCC, MCZMA, Dapoli sub-divisional officer Sharad Pawar and tehsildar Vaishali Patil, and some other officials.
The team inspected land, buildings and the seaside, and took photographs. Later a meeting was held with district revenue officials in Dapoli to look at the papers to find out CRZ violations. A few of the officials did not respond to calls and text messages.
“The building construction plan for the resort was not approved as per our records as the area falls under CRZ-III,” said C P Joshi, town planner, Ratnagiri.