Goa, Aug. 1 -- AUGUSTO RODRIGUES

Res idents of Goa, especially along the coastal belt, have long suspected that com mercial establishments have been mushrooming across Anjuna's ecologi cally sensitive Coastal Reg ulation Zone (CRZ) with little meaningful over sight. Now, an RTI reply from the Village Panchayat of Anjuna appears to have reinforced those concerns. In a disclosure that has raised uncomfortable questions over the manner in which trade licences are issued in one of the State's busiest beach belts, the Village Panchayat of Anju na has admitted under the Right to Information Act, that no site inspection was conducted before issuing a trade licence to an es tablishment located in the CRZ area. The Anjuna Panchayat was replying t...