CALANGUTE: Candolim Backwaters will soon be on a tourism map with the Port Minister and Calangute Mla Michael Lobo on Thursday launched a job on the running track, a gallery of fishing, and other facilities along the Nerul River which has thick mangrove forests.
Speaking at the launch, Lobo said Candolim had become a tourist destination that was very popular with the beach, fort, and other beautiful attractions.
“This beautiful village has a sea and coast on one side and mangrove forest on the other side.
We have received a proposal to develop Riverside where there are mangroves so tourists also come here.
There will be a path around 1.5 km so people Can come here for morning or evening walks.
We have received proposals from locals who want to start boating because the locals must benefit from this.
There will also be four galleries of fishing in which people can come and fish or only Come and spend their time here because it is the natural beauty given by God, “he said.
“We should not see beach tourism, we also have to see inland tourism.
It has become our plan so tourists who come here can enjoy the village interior.
It is something good that will attract tourists to this place too,” Candolim Sarpanch Blaize Fernandes, who is also present, said.
After completion, the area will be managed by Candolim Panchayat.
This project is carried out by the Water Resources Department (WRD).
Officials said in 2012, they had begun the recovery of 1.5 km ‘bund’ along the river “to avoid the entry of salt water and flood the next area” which has now been resolved at a cost of around Rs 8 Crore.
Beauty work is now starting in the area above ‘Bund’ at a cost of Rs 4 Crore.
Enter the trail and fishing gallery will be ticketed, with security guards at the entrance to ban people from drinking alcohol there.