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The constabulary person arrested the proprietor of an escapade sports institution for allegedly moving paragliding operations without obtaining requisite permissions oregon a valid license. (Representative/ Express record photograph by Praveen Khanna)
A week aft two radical were killed in a paragliding mishap, the Goa authorities Friday suspended paragliding activities crossed the state.
An bid issued by Kedar A Naik, the Director of Tourism, said the cognition of paragliding activities – motorised and non-motorised – is “immediately suspended passim the coastal authorities until further orders”.
The bid said the Department of Tourism volition reappraisal each existing registrations issued nether the Goa Registration of Tourist Trade Act,1982, pertaining to paragliding activities passim the authorities to guarantee compliance with the requisite information standards.
“All operators engaged successful paragliding activities are required to taxable the prescribed documentation to the authority. All constabulary officers and persons successful complaint of constabulary stations wrong their respective jurisdictions are hereby directed to assistance successful the enforcement of this order,” the bid said.
It added that immoderate person, company, association, steadfast oregon immoderate different entity that fails to comply with the bid shall beryllium liable to wage a good of Rs 50,000 and taxable to penal enactment nether the Bhartiya Nyaya Sanhita.
The department’s determination to suspend paragliding operations comes aft a 27-year-old tourer from Maharashtra and a 26-year-old aviator were killed successful a paragliding mishap successful North Goa’s Querim past Saturday.
The incidental took spot connected January 18 betwixt 4.30 p.m. and 5 pm, erstwhile Shivani Dabale accompanied by aviator Suman Nepali took disconnected from a cliff astatine Keri plateau and plunged into a ravine. One of the cables had snapped mid-flight, owed to which the duo mislaid balance, collided with rocks and crashed from a height.
The constabulary person arrested the proprietor of an escapade sports institution for allegedly moving paragliding operations without obtaining requisite permissions oregon a valid license. The tourism section said past week that nary support oregon approvals had been granted by the section for paragliding activities astatine the Keri plateau.
Reiterating its committedness to ensuring that each tourism-related activities successful the authorities adhere strictly to information regulations and licensing norms, the section said that an enquiry volition beryllium conducted.
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