The Times of India 16.11.2010
Engineers gun for TCP dept
PANAJI: A demand by the registered civil engineers association (diploma holders) to allow their members with ten years of experience to sign construction, land development and other plans will be referred to the steering committee related to the framing of the Goa Land Development and Building Construction Regulations 2010.
A group of civil engineers/structural engineers (diploma holders) held a demonstration outside the town and country planning department's office on Monday protesting the TCP's move not to accept the registration forms of members who possess ten years experience.
TCP had announced that all professionals in the construction sector had to register afresh from November 8 as per the new regulations. However, as far as civil engineers (diploma) are concerned, only those who were registered prior to 1995 are eligible for registration.
"We will refer the matter to the steering committee headed by chief minister Digambar Kamat and whatever decision is taken will be at the panel's discretion," TCP senior town planner S Puttaraju told TOI.
Another one of the engineers' demands-to maintain a status quo and allow them to sign plans of new constructions, RCC designs of buildings and issue stability certificates till a decision is taken about the criterion for registration-has been referred to the government on Monday. "This matter will be referred to the government," Puttaraju confirmed.
Curtorim MLA Aleixo Reginaldo Lourenco was also present with engineers who met Puttaraju and other officials.
The engineers demanded that the assurances given by Kamat in a meeting on October 20 be fulfilled. In this meeting with Kamat, it had been mutually agreed that diploma holders possessing ten years of experience would be eligible for registration with the TCP. Kamat, who holds the TCP portfolio, had agreed to examine the issue of allowing them to sign building plans, structural drawings and issue stability certificates.
"We should also be given representation in the steering committee appointed by the government," association chairman Donald Fernandes said
The engineers were agitated over the change in the definition of civil engineers in the Goa Land Development and Building Construction Regulations 2010. It allows the registration of only those engineers who have been registered prior to 1995. Naguesh Gaunekar, the association's joint secretary and other members, explained their problems if the new regulations, which were notified on September 9 were enforced.
"If the year 1995 is taken as the cut off period, engineers practicing prior to that will be restricted to signing only plans, while those registered after 1995 will be rendered totally jobless," Roque Mascarenhas, a member of the association said. Around 80 civil engineers emerge annually from institutions conducting diploma courses.
A group of civil engineers/structural engineers (diploma holders) held a demonstration outside the town and country planning department's office on Monday protesting the TCP's move not to accept the registration forms of members who possess ten years experience.
TCP had announced that all professionals in the construction sector had to register afresh from November 8 as per the new regulations. However, as far as civil engineers (diploma) are concerned, only those who were registered prior to 1995 are eligible for registration.
"We will refer the matter to the steering committee headed by chief minister Digambar Kamat and whatever decision is taken will be at the panel's discretion," TCP senior town planner S Puttaraju told TOI.
Another one of the engineers' demands-to maintain a status quo and allow them to sign plans of new constructions, RCC designs of buildings and issue stability certificates till a decision is taken about the criterion for registration-has been referred to the government on Monday. "This matter will be referred to the government," Puttaraju confirmed.
Curtorim MLA Aleixo Reginaldo Lourenco was also present with engineers who met Puttaraju and other officials.
The engineers demanded that the assurances given by Kamat in a meeting on October 20 be fulfilled. In this meeting with Kamat, it had been mutually agreed that diploma holders possessing ten years of experience would be eligible for registration with the TCP. Kamat, who holds the TCP portfolio, had agreed to examine the issue of allowing them to sign building plans, structural drawings and issue stability certificates.
"We should also be given representation in the steering committee appointed by the government," association chairman Donald Fernandes said
The engineers were agitated over the change in the definition of civil engineers in the Goa Land Development and Building Construction Regulations 2010. It allows the registration of only those engineers who have been registered prior to 1995. Naguesh Gaunekar, the association's joint secretary and other members, explained their problems if the new regulations, which were notified on September 9 were enforced.
"If the year 1995 is taken as the cut off period, engineers practicing prior to that will be restricted to signing only plans, while those registered after 1995 will be rendered totally jobless," Roque Mascarenhas, a member of the association said. Around 80 civil engineers emerge annually from institutions conducting diploma courses.
