No alcohol on Goa beaches anymore

Next time you plan a trip to goa keeping drinking on a beach side on mind..think about it again!!
Following the complaints by tourists of getting injured by broken bottles ,littering beaches and of nuisance against women tourists by drunk hoodlums loitering beaches Goa government banned drinking liquor on beaches .
Tourism Director Nikhil Desai told PTI.“The ban has been imposed under Goa Tourist Places (Protection and Maintenance) Act which gives the right to the state government to ban things which create nuisance in the tourism zones. The act envisages to protect and maintain the tourist places from deterioration and erosion and preserve the tourism potential”
India Reserve Battalion (IRB), a wing of Goa Police, manning the law and order on beaches, is asked to implement the order with immediate effect. According to Mr. Desai . “The violation will attract arrest”,
One can still enjoy drinks at a few beach shacks , as prohibition order is not applicable to drinking in licensed shacks or any other places where retail sale of liquor is allowed.