PANJIM: More than over two decades after the boundaries of beach stretches were fixed, the State tourism department has decided to survey the entire coastal belt to identify the encroachments. The surveyors of the Settlement of Land Records will carry out demarcation at the various beach stretches.
An order issued on Monday by the Director of Directorate of Settlement and Land Records (DSLR), Johnson Fernandes, stated that the Department of Tourism desires that the various beach stretches in Goa be duly surveyed on account of various encroachments made by unscrupulous elements usurping upon the area and hence this exercise will be carried out.
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“The government has conveyed approval to survey the entire beach stretch so that the illegal encroachments could be identified and removed to preserve land belonging to the Tourism department,” the order further stated.
DSLR carried out a survey of the beach land in the year 2008 and had fixed boundary stones, and this plan shall be used for all references to carry out a fresh survey of the properties belonging to the Department of Tourism.
Fernandes directed the surveyors of the five talukas – Pernem, Bardez, Mormugao, Salcete and Canacona – to demarcate and plot the boundary as well as identify the encroachments.
