Cutbona Boat Owners Association and traditional fishermen from Betul stopped soil testing work of the proposed extension of jetty project. The government has already awarded contract of this project to one private company. On Tuesday, when the contractor began soil testing, local fishermen including President of Cutbona Boat Owners Association Savio D’Silva, Pandhari Kerkar, Vinay Joshi and others stopped the same. The fishermen demanded the contractor to produce licences and letter of permission issued by the local panchayat and also from Goa State Coastal Management Authority. When he failed to produce the same, the fishermen grilled the contractor on how he could start work without any permission. The fishermen told reporters that they were only against a mini-harbour in the name of jetty extension.
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