Taj amusement park at Aguada, courtesy Goa Govt.
| 23 June 1997 23:16 IST
As a part of privatisation process of major tourism-related projects, Goa government has leased out the Aguada plateau, adjacent to the historical Aguada fort, to the Taj Group of Hotels, to develop an amusement park.
The Indian Resorts Hotels Company Limited has signed a lease agreement with the state government for a period of 50 years, on a condition to pay the government upto Rs one crore annually, at the rate of five per cent on annual turnover.
Going against the local opposition to privatise heritage places in the state, the government has already privatised Terekhol fort, situated on the Goa-Maharashtra border along the coastline, converting it into a hotel. It would follow the Reis Magos fort across Panaji city and Cabo de Rama fort on the southern border of the state.
Deputy chief minister Wilfred de Souza expects these projects to fulfil the needs of quality tourists, foreign as well as domestic, as improper infrastructural facilities have been hampering the local tourism trade. "It will add to our revenue, which we can then spend on providing other infrastructural facilities", he says.
Drop a comment
Tourism
- Shifting all casinos on-shore in 3 years; Goans to be debarred: Parrikar
- Throw out Lamanis to protect Goenkarponn: Babu
- Shack owners threaten to show black flags to PM
- Cabral shifts hot air baloon to his constituency in South Goa
- Russians voted from Goa for Parliamentary poll
- Sunburn to shift from Goa to Mumbai or Delhi?
- Goa to find legal course to debar foreigners from running business
- Not Goa, TN is favourite destination of foreigners
- Ravi seeks ban on Nigerians, calls them Negroes
- Kejri makes BJP leaders fight over drug trade of Goa