PERNEM
The tourist season is over, however even in the rainy season, private restaurant business is on, and as there is no parking arrangement on the roadsides, the visiting tourists park their vehicles on both sides causing traffic jams. The government should take action on this and find a solution, appeals a local Sanjay Kole.
The tourist season at Morjim, Ashwem, Mandrem, Harmal, Keri and Tiracol areas is between October to May. After April, the shacks permitted on the coastal belt by the government are shut. However, the private restaurants and resorts in the area are still doing business and different rules apply for them, question locals. These restaurants on private land are at Vithaldas wada and as they put wooden decks on the seashore, some tourists visit them even during the rains.
As most of these restaurants have no parking space, the visitors to these restaurants park their vehicles on both sides of the roads, and traffic jams occur due to this. In times of crises, if fire services have to be summoned, how would emergency services provide service? The Pernem police and traffic department should take note of this and take action on the vehicles parked on both sides of the roads, demand citizens.
After an independent police station was formed for Mandrem constituency, the citizens were expecting that prostitution and other illegalities like drugs, quarrels, fighting, abusing etc would be brought under control, however it has continued.
Large scale noise pollution also continued during the tourist season. Even with the Lok Sabha poll code of conduct in place, the noise pollution could not be controlled. Now the tourist season is over and the monsoon has started, yet noise pollution is a regular phenomenon here. Mandrem police should take action against this, locals appeal.
No parking zone (subhead)
The tourists flock here all 365 days of the year. The number of domestic tourists is more. They come with friends and families with their own vehicles to celebrate weekends and park their vehicles in no parking zones. Strict action should be taken against them, demands Kole.
