24/05/2015 … It seems as if war of words have started between the tourism minister and calangute mla as on Saturday Tourism minister dilip parulekar advised calangute mla Michael lobo not to advise his tourism department on what decisions his department has to take or not as far as tourism issues were concerned specially mentioning about the stoppage of paying electricity bill of heritage sites in the state
It may be noted that Asking to curtail down on the number of road shows being undertaken by the tourism department in various parts of the world for promotion of state tourism calangute mla Michael lobo in turn has urged the state tourism department of creating more facilities to illuminate state heritage sites other than churches, temples and mosques using the same money used for promotional tours by the tourism department …
Speaking to goanreporter tourism minister dilip parulekar said that he being a minister he had a tourism department team to take steps as far as development of tourism in the state was concerned and did not required suggestions from others
Parulekar also stated that his department was there for the development of heritage sites in the state but there had to be a certain budget cut off and therefore if any of the heritage sites like churches temples and mosques had a problem to pay electricity bills then they could write to the tourism department and the department could take certain steps on it
