vasco members of the chicalim gram sabha at sundays extraordinary meeting unanimously resolved to oppose the urbanisation of chicalim villageclaiming an ulterior motive the villagers alleged that the local government has joined hands with the real estate lobby for their own gains causing them to go against public interest they also demanded that local mla and panchayats minister mauvin godhino addresses them and clears his stand on the notification of the governmentundeterred urbanisation with increased real estate development will greatly harm chicalims sensitive ecology biodiversity and heritage activist and villagers cyril fernandes saidin sao jose de areal too the gram sabha rejected the states notification of the village as an urban area and unanimously resolved to remain a rural area the members further resolved that the village panchayat shall forward the resolution to the government asking it to immediately drop the subject notification and retain all villages in the list as rural areas