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Goa beaches to be unmanned

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Panaji, Sep 14, 2013 PTI:

Goas beaches are to be without lifeguards from September 15 as the private agency engaged to provide services, has decided to withdraw its personnel due to the governments failure to renew the contract.

The Drishti Special Response Services (DSRS), in a notice to the Tourism Ministry, has informed them that they will withdraw all 550 lifeguards from 105-km stretch of beaches as the ministry has failed to renew their five-year contract.

Tourism Minister Dilip Parulekar said his department has invited fresh tenders from agencies interested to provide lifeguards.

When asked if beaches would remain without lifeguards with the tourist season around the corner, the minister declined to comment. The DSRS, which bagged the contract in 2008, was initially assigned select beaches. .

Their services were then extended to other tourist hotspots like the Dudhsagar waterfall, from where several drowning incidents had been reported.

Kanwar said the agency issued the notice as their regular contract expired on June 15 and since then the Tourism Ministry has been renewing it on a monthly basis. We decided not to seek monthly renewal due to various issues, he said.

The DSRS had not been receiving timely payments from the ministry and the 10 per cent annual increment embedded in the agreement was not honoured, he added.

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Muscat Municipality to allocate spots on beaches for families

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(MENAFN - Muscat Daily) The Municipal Council has approved recommendations by the Public Affairs Committee to allocate spots on the city's beaches for families. The civic body will also allocate spots for playing football and other sports.

Residents and citizens have been complaining for a while as spots on most beaches are taken up by youths for playing football and other sports. ''I like going to the beach with my children, but unfortunately most in Muscat are always occupied by youths, hence leaving families with no space to enjoy,'' said Rehab al Rawahi, a Muscat resident.

According to a Muscat Municipality official, the allocation of spots for families was approved during the recent Municipal Council meeting. ''There have been recommendations to assign municipal affairs committees at the wilayat level to identify suitable places for families at the beaches,'' the official said. He added that once locations are identified and marked, playing football there will be prohibited.

According to a youth, beaches are among the limited play area options they have in the city. ''In Muscat, there are not enough play areas, and football grounds that are available charge a high fee for an hour. Since we have no other option, we go to the beaches,'' said Saleh Shafi, a young football enthusiast.

The official said, ''Taking into consideration the topography of the area, places where football can be played will be identified and they will be equipped accordingly.''

There is a proposal to create a team of officials from several government departments for formulating regulations on proper conduct at beaches.

There has also been recommendations by the council to allocate places in public parks for spor

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UTC Aerospace Systems Names New Aircraft President

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UTC Aerospace Systems named David Gitlin as president of the business's aircraft systems segment this week, after its previous head, Curtis Reusser, left the company Thursday to lead a competing firm in Washington state.

The shakeup comes weeks after a similar high-level move at Pratt & Whitney, another division of United Technologies Corp., after its current head announced his retirement. This executive, Paul Adams, and Gitlin both report to Alain Bellemare, chief executive of UTC Propulsion & Aerospace Systems.

Bellemaire said in a written statement that Gitlin, 44, is "exceptionally well qualified to takeover leadership" of the business, having served as a vice president of various departments at Hamilton Sundstrand since the company merged operations with Goodrich in 2011.

"Dave and Curtis have worked hand in hand since the beginning of the integration and I am confident in Dave's ability to lead the Aircraft Systems business segment into the future," Bellemaire said.

Gitlin joined UTC in 1997 in the company's legal department. He was previously Hamilton Sundstrand's president for business development.

Reusser, a former Goodrich executive who led UTC Aerospace Systems since the merger, left the firm this week to become chief executive of Esterline, an aerospace and defense manufacturer based in Bellevue, Wash. Before his time at UTC and Goodrich, he worked for General Dynamics, the parent company of Electric Boat.

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