NCP demands white paper on sale of drugs in Goa coastal belt

Latching on to the statements of Goa tourism minister and a sitting MLA that sale of drugs is rampant in the coastal belt, Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) today asked Manohar Parrikar government to issue a white paper on the "overall narcotics scene".
"The statements by state tourism minister Dilip Parulekar and Calangute legislator Michael Lobo, admitting about drugs in the coastal belt, indicated that the home ministry led by Parrikar has failed to handle the department," NCP Goa unit spokesman Trajano D'Mello told reporters here.
He demanded that state government come out with a white paper on the "narcotics scene" in the state, especially in the coastal belt.

Parulekar had said that drugs along the coastline is a reality even as Lobo submitted a list of drug lords operating in the coastal belt.
NCP also took strong objection to the tourism ministry's move to make it mandatory for shack owners to install CCTV cameras at these facilities.
"The shack owners can install cameras only if there is 90 per cent subsidy provided by the government," said D'Mello.
The tourism department is contemplating to make setting up of CCTV cameras compulsory in shacks along beaches to monitor movements.