mapusa mapusa farmers under the banner of bodgeshwar shetkari sangh have demanded that the government show them the letter of willingness it obtained from one farmers for undertaking development work under the mapusa downtown planning scheme the organisation has also threatened to approach the court to seek justice for farmers who stand to lose their fields under the scheme addressing reporters at mapusa the organisations president sanjay barde said have farmers been taken into confidence while planning the downtown scheme for mapusa there is nothing shown how much the farmers stand to gain when the scheme is executed this is total injustice to farmersthe task force committee says they have received letters of willingness from farmers to execute the scheme but when we asked under the rti to be shown the names of the farmers in the letters the government failed to produce the details barde said he also said that farmers have objected to any additional alterations to the mapusa outline development plan in their letter of suggestions and objections submitted to the member secretary of the north goa planning and development authority ngpda the farmers strongly opposed the initiative to further alter the mapusa downtown planning scheme they also alleged that the scheme will only promote the interests of real estate agents and buildersciting the case of a wellknown hotel thats been constructed on prime agricultural land in the city under the blessing of the ngpda chairman the farmers further alleged that the office of the ngpda is only supporting politicians and real estate brokers to grab agricultural land