What people connected with Shack on beach stretch of Sinquerim-Candolim-Calangute-Baga does with pokleins at night is terrible. They manage politicians and police to ensure that their clandestine night activities of digging of the beaches goes unreported an law enforcing agencies. They move these machinery on the beach and trigger off the process of lifting the sand in inter-tidal zone and dump it few meters away land side where Sea waves don't reach. They create sort of stage of this excavated sand with elevation.
How it helps the shacks ?
This helps beach shacks to start their bussiness in September two months prior to traditional timing of November. The greed of people connected with shacks including those who have illegally sub-let - by bribing Goa Tourism Department and local politicians - the beach shacks to people from various States in India gets satisfied.
How do fishers suffer?
Fishers have their houses on the beaches. Sand excavation on beaches has triggered massive sand erosion. Local fishers are denied space on beach to move around as beach shacks crowd the coast. Bore wells are dugged to extract water for kitchen in the shacks. Sand erosion is threatening the houses of fishers living on this coast. It's massive disaster unfolding. Fishers suffer greatly as tourism no longer respects local people as hosts. Instead tourism has taken Goa's fishers and ecology as hostages. Even turtles no longer find their nesting spaces intact on beach due to this destructive greed driven human behaviour. Loud music and artificial lighting at night way beyond mid-night is perfect recipe to disrup natural ways conducive to Olive Ridley turtles. No authority cares or rather Authorities that cares a dam are hoisted on licals ever since India annexed Goa through conquest in 1961.
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