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Restore heritage buildings

This old heritage structure located behind the famous Maruti temple in Mapusa has always impressed me with its beautiful architecture and design. It is an old structure which has now started to crumble. This year's monsoon has brought down the top roofing which will further collapse if the owners of the building do not attend to its repair. However, if the owners are not around to look into its repairs, can't the Mapusa Municipal Council step in and help restore this heritage structure to its former glory? Mapusa has many such structures and it will be good if the MMC prepares a list of such structures. So far the Mapusa Muncipal Council is doing good a good job - they first restored the old St. Mary's School building which now houses the MMC and work on the old Asilo hospital is also looking very impressive. There are many such buildings in Mapusa and the MMC must encourage its owners to restore them under the archive and heritage schemes.
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Season at risk

Government needs to intervene to help the charters get more slots for the upcoming tourism season

Published Sep 27, 2017, 6:35 PM IST
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Another tourism season is upon us and like every year, the season does not look bright especially from a charter tour operator's point of view. With the squabble over landing and berthing slots for charter flights set to get more intense this year and the Navy which controls air traffic at the Dabolim airport set to give preference to domestic flights, Goa stands to lose a big chunk of the foreign tourists to these procedures. For those uninitiated, several charter companies…

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