With the setting in of the Dussehra holidays, Indian tourists are flocking to Goan beaches hoping to have some fun. But their hopes were dissolved due to the near total absence of water sports activities on the state's shoreline.
Water sports activities have not commenced despite the season beginning in the first week of October since the authorities are yet to issue licences to operators for this tourism season. The thousands of tourists who have come with their families were disappointed as they missed out on water sports activities.
Youth and children were dejected. And water sports operators, too, claimed that they have suffered losses over the last one month.
Normally, water sports activities commence around the end of September. The state government recently formulated a policy to keep a check on erring water sports operators on its coastline including enforcing a queue system following an order by the Bombay high court at Goa and has begun the process of moving files for issuing licences.
This was done mainly to curb touts, undercutting of prices by rival operators and prevent accidents. The water sports association de Goa on Monday met captain of ports officials urging them to expedite the process of issuing licences.
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