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70 ILLEGAL STRUCTURES USURP PRIME BEACH SPOTS FOR ILLICIT AIMS!By Dr Olav Albuquerque
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70 ILLEGAL STRUCTURES USURP PRIME BEACH SPOTS FOR ILLICIT AIMS!By Dr Olav Albuquerque

LAW, Mar 21- Mar 27, 2026 March 19, 2026 , by

THE High Court of Bombay at Goa has ordered the Directorate of Tourism to furnish a comprehensive breakdown of 70 illegal structures along the Calangute-Candolim beachfront. When dusk descends along the Calangute to Baga stretch it is party time for pimps and prostitutes, both solicit business from tourists, inviting them to attend “parties” where drugs and call girls are freely available for a price.
 What is more, there are shacks set up on the beach which belong to the people of Goa and useful for walks as the sun sets for the day. The shacks are obviously unauthorized because they cannot be set up on the beach sands itself, close to the waterline. However, the government which is represented by the tourism minister and its department, seem to be turning a blind eye to blatant violations of the law.
The Directorate of Tourism, in its affidavit submitted before the High Court, reveled that 70 structures were built on government land and within its jurisdiction. The directorate has already issued notices to the 70 structures, requiring them to justify why they should not be removed.
The Goa government has submitted that boundary marks demarcating government land had been tampered with. A fresh survey has been undertaken using geo-tagging technology to clearly define the line between government beach land and private properties. The high court has ordered the Directorate of Tourism to submit a detailed report in tabular form by April 7, 2026 which must depict the exact location of all these 70 illegal structures. The high court will hear this fresh matter on April 7, 2026.
IN a separate development, the high court directed the authorities to take immediate action against the owners of illegal structures and illegal land filling in the Arpora-Nagoa area. During a hearing on a Public Interest Litigation filed by Chahit Bansal, the high court also expressed concern over administrative delays in enforcing demolition orders.
The High Court focused specifically on a structure located in Survey Nos 10/6 and 10/7. Despite the Village Panchayt of Arpora-Nagoa issuing a demolition order and summoning a demolition squad from the Deputy Collector of Bardez as early as October 2024, no action was taken.
The additional government advocate was told by the high court to seek instructions from the deputy collector regarding this failure to provide a squad. The court has now granted a four-week deadline for the demolition to be completed and for a compliance report to be filed. The panchayat informed the high court that show-cause notices were issued to determine why the illegal structures should not be sealed, given the fact that they were already sealed for demolition.

UP FOR FURTHER HEARING
HENCE, the high court ordered the panchayat to submit a tabular report by the next hearing, outlining the status of sealing or enforcement actions taken for each of these structures. This matter too has been kept for further hearing on April 28, 2026.
 What makes things very interesting is the fact that the Goa government has already enacted a blatantly unfair law titled the “Goa Regularization of Unauthorised Construction Act, 2016” which permits those who have built illegal houses on the land belonging to others to get their illegal houses regularized. This is encouraging crime and illegal constructions, so that owners of land who are abroad return to find their land has been encroached and destroyed, so that it will take decades for them to get their land back.
Sometimes, governments support those who usurp the ancestral land and beaches owned by the people of Goa — who have no resources or are too sussegad to fight back in court.

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