Colva: Assistant Director of Tourism (South) Rodlin Mascarenhas has written to the Colva Police Inspector to use Indian reserve batallion personnel on the stretch of the coast in his jurisdiction to maintain strict alertness to illegal activities carried out by vendors.
Colva Sarpanch Johnson Coelho told that in October, he wrote to tourism officials about “disruption created for tourists by vendors” and urged him to start actions.
“Massage, tattoos, bracelets, trickets, beaches, wrap towels, photography, etc., are all commercial migrants on the coast,” said Sarpanch.
Police Inspector Colva Tamaram Chavan said the police were present on the beach stretch in his jurisdiction, and added that he would now seek direction from his superiors about how to deal with snack disorders.
Although prevalently on the beach stretched over decades, the authorities had failed to deal with vendors.
Even Minister of Tourism Manohar Ajgaonkar said that there would be a gap on anyone who created a disturbance to tourists on the beach.
In 2019, the villagers of Benaulim had adopted a resolution to stop peddling on the beach.
They have decided to form a village population committee to get rid of their beach handler.
The committee worked for several days, after that the ax traders returned to action.
The police hit the patrols of the beach revealed that if they stopped the peddlers in one place, they quickly moved to another place.
“We don’t have many personnel to constantly patrol the whole beach stretch in Jurisdiktio Police Colva,” said a police officer.
Goa: The Tourism Department urges the police to increase efforts to fight snack traders
