Vasco: NCP President Jose Philip D’Souza revealed that the NCP party senior leaders will take up the stranded Goan Seafarers issue with the Union Minister for Shipping Mansukh Mandaviya.
D’Souza informed that he has received assurance from the NCP coalition government in Maharashtra that they will extend their support to the cause of Goan Seafarers stranded at ships in Maharashtra Ports, especially Mumbai port.
D’Souza said he had recently written a letter to the NCP supremo Sharad Pawar and senior leader Praful Patel about the same.
“Goan seafarers want to come back home and this need to be done looking at the tough times amidst the COVID- 19 pandemic. Every country is taking back their stranded people from India. Similarly we must also do the same and there is no two way thinking on it as it is the responsibility of the government,” he said, while adding that if it wasn’t for the lockdown, he would have gone to Mumbai himself.
D’Souza also said it positive news that Chief Minister Pramod Sawant had clarified that Goan seafarers will be brought back to Goa in three phases based on their locations.
“There are around 93 Goan seafarers on the ship Karnika and 65 Goan seafarers on ship Marella Discovery and these crew members have already undergone 14 days self-quarantine period and both these ships are at the Mumbai port,” he added.
