PANJIM: Goa government has switched to the Public Private Partnership (PPP) model to set up basic infrastructure at 30 beaches and at Fort Aguada and has awarded the contract for this to a firm for 15 years.
According to information available with Herald, the infrastructure will include portable toilets with sewage and water cycling mechanism, changing room, shower bath and cloak rooms, which will have lockers from 20 to maximum 90 in each block.
Sources said that Dara Shaw and Company Private Limited will in turn hire a developer for the project in the next two months.
The beaches that would be taken up on priority will be Calangute, Baga and Colva. “The work at the three beaches will begin before the 2015-16 tourist season. The task is to complete the work at 16 beaches in the north, 14 in south and at Aguada Fort within 12 months,” the source said.
Lack of basic amenities like dressing rooms and toilets have been a constant complaint by tourists who are forced to change their soaked clothes in make-shift tents of their own clothes.
The tourism department had assured last year to set up infrastructure at beaches, especially at identified tourism circuits. The government is also working on its other decision to install CCTV cameras on all the beaches.
