panaji the issue of a playground proposed for a government primary school at tercen aldona and for four other schools in neighbouring villages dominated the gram sabha and most villagers opposed it stating that it would destroy agricultural land in a meeting chaired by sarpanch ursula dsouza members raised objections to the proposal stating that the schools had not written to the panchayat regarding the playground alleging that it was more of a politically motivated project the members demanded that the agricultural land of about 7000 sq m acquired some time last year be reverted back to the tenantsowners members demanded that intervention of chief minister manohar parrikar be sought to resolve the issue as parrikar had stressed the importance of saving cultivable land unidentified workers had started axing the trees from the acquired land the villagers were also surprised that the ownership of the land in form i xiv wa changed from government primary school to sports authority of goa in a short time the primary school at tercen itself is facing closure due to poor enrolment while the other schools especially in nachinola are located four kms away said sources the panchayat was also proposing to use the school premises as a community hall sub health centre and police outpost a tenant of a large part of the agricultural land manguesh ghadi said he had been cultivating it for decades for sustenance he had obtained approvals from electricity department to set up a pump house and urged the authorities concerned to revert the land for agriculture the villagers also raised the issue of an allegedly illegal tower at calvim one villager lamented that despite petitioning various authorities no action had been taken the sarpanch assured that necessary steps would be taken to stop the project and police would be requested to seal it