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Illegal Goa casinos granted month’s time to provide documents

More than half of the off-shore casino vessels in Goan waters operate without No Objection Certificates (NOCs). Only partial sewage from these vessels is taken by a contractor, the rest is flushed down the river

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With more than half of the off-shore casino vessels in Goan waters operating without No Objection Certificates (NOCs), the state government on Wednesday sought submission of all required documents from these vessels within a month.
State ports minister, Nilkant Halarnkar told the state legislative assembly that the NOCs of the five vessels, out of seven, have expired.
Responding to the volley of questions posed by Opposition benches led by Manohar Parrikar, Halarnkar said he has asked all the casinos to produce all the documents required for NOC before the deadline ends on April 1 this year.
Halarnkar said of the five, two vessels are in the dry dock and not in the Mandovi river waters. NOCs granted to three others have expired long back. The NOC granted to MV Casino Royale expired way back in 2009 while MV San Domino vessel in 2009. Another vessel, MV Boa Sorte has expired in February 2011.
Parrikar raising the issue on the floor of the House said that ports department was not strict enough against these vessels.
Congress legislator Dayanand Narvekar alleged that only partial sewage from these vessels is taken by a contractor while the rest is flushed down in the river.
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