Goa, Aug. 16 -- Chief Minister Pramod Sawant has urged Comunidade managing committees and other institutions to extend cooperation in legalising homes occupied by residents for over four decades.

Delivering his Independence Day speech at the Old Secretariat, Panjim, Sawant said that the Goa Legislative Diploma No. 2070 dated April 15, 1961, was amended to secure the right of the common man to live legally in his own house and not to regularise illegal constructions.

"With the passing of the Goa Regularisation of Unauthorised Construction (Amendment) Act 2025, the government is making it easier than ever to regularise constructions - a step forward in our commitment to 'Ease of Doing Business'," he said.

Sawant stated that the Bill rese...