Goa Locks 10 Million Square Meters of Paddy and Forest as No Development Zone

The Town and Country Planning Board extended construction bans across three talukas on July 16, converting ecological sensitivity into binding land-use law.

Goa’s Town and Country Planning Board formalized a prohibition on new construction across more than 10 million square meters of ecologically sensitive land on July 16, converting years of environmental advocacy into binding regulatory text [1]. The notification targets paddy fields and fragile ecosystems in the Salcette, Dharbandora, and Quepem talukas, drawing a hard line against real estate expansion in areas where water tables and soil stability have long been compromised by unregulated development [2][3]. This is not a proposal or a study but an enforceable zoning change that removes these parcels from the speculative market immediately.

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