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PANAJI
The beach shack policy of the government has been challenged in High Court on grounds that it does not give enough opportunity for unemployed youth, thus defeating the very purpose of the policy.
Speaking on behalf of the petitioners, Adv Nitin Sardesai said that the fact that 90 per cent of the shacks were reserved for those with experience and only 10% for ‘newcomers’ was arbitrary.
“The challenge is basically on the ground that the government has made 90 per cent reservation on the beach stretches of Goa for whom they consider as experienced and thereby all unemployed or newcomers will have only 10 per cent chance on the beaches of Goa to run any shacks,” Adv Sardesai said.
“This is arbitrary because it does not have any intelligible differential with the object to be achieved by the policy,” he said.
Adv Sardesai said he would be adding additional grounds in the form of a demand that since govt is giving public space to run private business the same should be auctioned to the highest bidder.
“Why should the government not get the best possible price from the highest bidder. Why should there not be bidding for these places,” Adv Sardesai said.
The traditional shack owners have sought to intervene in the petition and the matter has been kept for arguments on October 21.
