Deadline for removing the Farangipete Fish Market ends today
Temporary market alongside the national highway has been constructed
# Traders demand to identify a location and set up a permanent market
Bantwala, Jan 15: The deadline given by the Railway Department to clear the fish market that was in operation on the land belonging to the Railway Department near Farangipete national highway in the limits of Pudu gram panchayat will end on January 15.
The fish market was operating in the Pudu gram panchayat area on the old road of Farangpete for few years. However, the panchayat, on the pretext of constructing a new panchayat building, shifted the fish market near bus stand on the highway side.
The market was again shifted to a vacant land of the Railway Department on the other side of the road while clearing the highway side shops by the Deputy Commissioner. The life of fish traders is hit as the railway department has now issued a deadline to remove the market from its land.
Site inspection near the tenth milestone: Deputy Commissioner Sasikant Senthil, who had recently visited Farangipet to identify a location for constructing the fish market, inspected a place near the tenth milestone here. However, due to unavailability of a permanent land for the fish market, the Deputy Commissioner instructed to temporarily shift the fish market on the area near the existing one. However, it is not appropriate for fish sellers. Moreover, the land belongs to the highway. Gram panchayat president Ramlan says that a temporary market is now being built near the highway.
The fish traders, who were hoping for a permanent fish market, have once again disappointed as a temporary market is being constructed as of now.
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Another North Goa nightclub sealed; Kejriwal says corruption led to fire tragedy
Panaji (PTI): As part of a crackdown against tourist establishments violating laws and safety norms in the aftermath of the Arpora fire tragedy, Goa authorities on Saturday sealed a renowned club at Vagator and revoked the fire department NOC of another club.
Cafe CO2 Goa, located on a cliff overlooking the Arabian Sea at Vagator beach in North Goa, was sealed. The move came two days after Goya Club, also in Vagator, was shut down for alleged violations of rules.
Elsewhere, campaigning for local body polls, AAP leader Arvind Kejriwal said the fire incident at Birch by Romeo Lane nightclub at Arpora, which claimed 25 lives on December 6, happened because the BJP government in the state was corrupt.
An inspection of Cafe CO2 Goa by a state government-appointed team revealed that the establishment, with a seating capacity of 250, did not possess a no-objection certificate (NOC) of the Fire and Emergency Services Department. The club, which sits atop Ozrant Cliff, also did not have structural stability, the team found.
The Fire and Emergency Services on Saturday also revoked the NOC issued to Diaz Pool Club and Bar at Anjuna as the fire extinguishers installed in the establishment were found to be inadequate, said divisional fire officer Shripad Gawas.
A notice was issued to Nitin Wadhwa, the partner of the club, he said in the order.
Campaigning at Chimbel village near Panaji in support of his party's Zilla Panchayat election candidate, Aam Aadmi Party leader Kejriwal said the nightclub fire at Arpora happened because of the "corruption of the Pramod Sawant-led state government."
"Why this fire incident happened? I read in the newspapers that the nightclub had no occupancy certificate, no building licence, no excise licence, no construction licence or trade licence. The entire club was illegal but still it was going on," he said.
"How could it go on? Couldn't Pramod Sawant or anyone else see it? I was told that hafta (bribe) was being paid," the former Delhi chief minister said.
A person can not work without bribing officials in the coastal state, Kejriwal said, alleging that officers, MLAs and even ministers are accepting bribes.
