The organisers had approached the High court appointed high power committee, early this month seeking permission to build a temporary jetty in the sea and access road, near the Parsi Gate at Chowpatty
Procam International Private Limited which has organised a three day Power boat, Indian Grand Prix of the seas event at Marine Drive, has approached the Bombay High Court seeking permission to construct a temporary jetty and access road for three days at Girgaon Chowpatty.
The event is scheduled to be held between March 3 to 5, the one of its kind initiative, promoted by Procam International under the aegis of Union Internationale Motonautique (UIM) and P1 Global, will have seven teams (with two boats each) competing on a tailor-made 5.2 km course — something that is being done for the first time.
The organisers had approached the High court appointed high power committee, early this month seeking permission to build a temporary jetty in the sea and access road, near the Parsi Gate at Chowpatty. The High Power Committee had rejected its proposal twice and now the organisers have approached the high court, with a revised proposal and pray to direct the City collector and the court appointed committee to accept it.
The organisers have prayed that since the event is to be held this week and all the boats and other equipments required has already arrived, the permission for building the temporary jetty be granted to them. Moreover, Maharashtra Tourism Development Authority has also agreed for the event thus the permission should not be denied. The organisers also undertake to dismantle the jetty and the access road, a day after the event is concluded. A division bench of Justice V M Kanade and Justice P R Bora is likely to hear the petition on Wednesday.
The unique feature of this newly launched series is that all the teams would have to compete in completely identical P1 Panther boats specially designed to be able to race in just six feet water and can reach a maximum speed of 120km/hr on water.
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