Panaji: Whereas seashore shacks are allotted with the approval of the Goa Coastal Zone Administration Authority (GCZMA), the tourism division has requested the authority to hold out seashore carrying capability and submit a report on the earliest.
Tourism division, which consults the GCZMA each season, allotted over 350 shacks yearly, with the bulk allotted on the Candolim, Calangute and Baga seashore stretches.
Whereas the panorama of each seashore stretch is examined earlier than deciding on the variety of shacks it will probably ideally maintain, a supply mentioned that the authorities doesn’t essentially follow the norm.
“Suppose it’s apparent that if a selected stretch of the seashore can have solely eight shacks after its panorama is examined post-monsoon, the stakeholders are prone to make loads of noise,” mentioned the supply, including that they might be up-in-arms with the authorities if the variety of shacks allotted for a selected stretch is diminished on environmental grounds.
“A decade in the past, it was fairly frequent for these near the powers that be to place up shacks illegally in the event that they weren’t fortunate sufficient to get allotment by way of a draw of heaps,” he mentioned.
Although such issues don’t occur now, if the elevated actions of present allottees on the seashores usually are not contained, it should defeat the aim of conducting seashore carrying capability, he mentioned.
Whereas in November-December final yr the division got here down on shacks on the Calangute, Baga and Candolim seashore stretches, and constituted a flying squad, the excesses by allottees on different seashores remained largely untouched.
“The crowding and commercialisation we see at Calangute, Baga and Candolim seashores is past regular. The sheer quantity of footfalls additionally impacts the seashore setting,” mentioned a stakeholder.
He mentioned that years in the past, that they had introduced it to the discover of the federal government, however nothing a lot modified. “However so as to not displease shack operators, the federal government by no means considered adopting any harsh measures. Now issues are tough to implement,” he mentioned.
Plus, there have been a number of circumstances of individuals driving or using on the seashore up to now few months. Although these caught have been fined, he mentioned, there’s additionally a degree of consciousness wanted to keep up the well being of seashores.
“Doing carrying capability of seashores is not going to suffice alone,” he added.

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