The Times of India               13.05.2013

Goa Municipalities Act to be redrafted

D'Souza, while speaking to mediapersons on Saturday, stated that the Act, which was drafted on the basis of Maharashtra Municipalities Act, will be drastically amended and in tune with requirements of the state civic bodies.

Major amendments proposed are in terms of reservation of wards and also number of wards each municipality will have. He said, a formula will be worked for reservation of wards so that any kind of favouritism while reserving wards is prevented. "Sometimes a particular ward is kept reserved to favour a certain influential politician," said D'Souza . The municipal administration is always flooded with such complaints during municipal elections.

It is also proposed to hand over the responsibility of delimitation of wards as well reservation of wards to state election commission. Presently, state election commission is only entrusted with conducting elections.