PANJIM: Organisers of Electronic Dance Music Festival (EDM) Sunburn have applied before the Goa Coastal Zone Management Authority (GCZMA) and the Goa State Pollution Control Board (GSPCB) for permission to hold the festival. The annual four-day festival is scheduled to start on December 27.
In an application moved before GCZMA, permission has been sought under Coastal Regulation Zone (CRZ) notification 1991 and under Air (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Act and Water (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Act before the GSPCB.
GSPCB chairman Jose Manuel Noronha confirmed receiving the application. He, however, made it clear that consent would be granted only after the organisers obtain the required permissions from the departments of Tourism and Home and GCZMA.
Interestingly, the GCZMA expert committee, in its special report before the government in May, this year, had said “no” to holding such big events on the Candolim beach belt, where Sunburn is held every year, attracting lakhs of visitors from across the world.
“The holding of mega-festivals along the coastal areas of Goa in December 2014 has taught us certain lessons,” they observed after conducting a detailed site inspection.
