CALANGUTE
: A Calangute-based NGO has claimed that an illegal road, to gain access to the beach, is being constructed within 20m of the high-tide line at
Gauravaddo
.
A complaint about the alleged illegal road was filed with the
Goa Coastal Zone Management Authority
(GCZMA) recently by the
Calangute Constituency Forum
(CCF).
The complaint states that the 3m-wide and 200m-long road is being constructed in a private property next by destroying beach vegetation, sand dunes and removing sand, and by using mud, and construction debris, which could cause irreversible damage to the beach.
The CCF said that the road is being built in violation of the no-development zone (NDZ) of the
Coastal Regulation Zone
(CRZ), the
Environment Protection Act
1986 and the Biological Diversity Act 2002.
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