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In its bid to resolve the long-simmering “boundary-dispute” with Mormugao Port Trust (MPT), the Goa Cabinet on Friday decided to advise the Ministry of Shipping and Surface Transport to redefine and alter MPT port limits in terms of provisions of the Indian Ports Act, 1908.
The Chief Minister, Mr Digambar Kamat, told presspersons here that the issue had never been raked up since the limits were notified as early as in 1963 after Goa's liberation.
Only after the erstwhile MPT Chairman (Mr Praveen Agarwal) adopted a confrontationist approach with the State Government and advertised the territorial limits, the State Government had to take up the issue with the Central authorities, Mr Kamat said.
Apart from conflict over jurisdiction, the issue had led to a problem of displacement for traditional fishermen in Khariwado in Mormugao and the local fishermen had resorted to a major agitation to pressurise the State Government to save 363 traditional houses which were under the danger of demolition as they were coming under the jurisdiction of MPT.
The Chief Minister said the Government wants the Central Ministry to exclude the land area of Vasco Bay onward up to Cortalim in south Goa.
Mr Kamat also said that the Government did not want the MPT to claim its jurisdiction on Betul (coastal village) in south Goa which the State Government was intending to develop as a minor port.
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