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Panaji, March 29 (). Goa Chief Minister Pramod Sawant on Wednesday said that tourists entering the state will be given unique stickers to put on their vehicles so that they are not harassed (by the police) while visiting the coastal state.
Presenting the budget for the new financial year, Sawant said that documents of tourist vehicles would be checked at border check posts.
Vehicles entering Goa will be thoroughly checked at the border and given unique stickers to affix on their vehicles to allow comfortable movement of tourists across the state, Sawant said. Police will not stop such vehicles anywhere in the state for investigation.
In recent days, tourists have been complaining on social media that they are being stopped and harassed for checking vehicle documents.
A few months ago, Goa’s Revenue Minister Atanasio Monserrate said that instead of solving the traffic problems prevailing in the coastal state, the traffic police were actually harassing tourists by fining them.
Panaji MLA Monserrate had said, I see police constables only standing on a corner giving challans to tourists and they do nothing more than that. They are basically here to solve the traffic problem, but they are not doing that.
He said that he often discusses the issue with the concerned traffic police to solve the problem of traffic jam, but 4 to 5 constables stand at one place to challan tourists.
Tourism Minister Rohan Khunte had also claimed that tourists are being regularly harassed by traffic police officers in Goa and said that efforts would be made to make the state and its surroundings more hospitable for tourists.
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