Panaji: Health minister Vishwajit Rane has directed the town and country planning department to keep all permissions for real estate projects initiated by Prabhu Realtors on hold. Rane said that no files moved by Amit Prabhu, the business partner at Prabhu Realtors, will be cleared till the water contamination and other lapses at Prabhu Violetta housing complex in Chicalim are rectified.“I have already issued directions that all projects of Amit Prabhu are to be put on hold. He is missing and people are talking to me. It is his responsibility to rectify all the lapses and until he does not rectify the faults, I have called for all his files at the TCP department and have kept them on hold,” said Rane.Rane — who is also the TCP minister — said the health secretary has been asked to constitute a committee involving officials from the food and drugs administration, directorate of health services, TCP department, and representatives of the housing colony.“We have to consider what they have to say and then give them a platform to speak. The committee will be notified,” he said.Lapses and fraudulent claims by builders will not be tolerated, Rane said and added that he intended to make an example of Prabhu Realtors.“They (files moved by Amit Prabhu) will be kept in abeyance or rejected because we have not given anybody the right to play with people’s lives and health,” said Rane.
