{"id":11744,"date":"2020-11-12T22:01:23","date_gmt":"2020-11-12T22:01:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=11744"},"modified":"2026-04-24T00:08:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T03:08:07","slug":"goa-renews-casino-licences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/goa-renews-casino-licences","title":{"rendered":"Goa renews casino licences"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The six offshore operators on the&nbsp;Mandovi&nbsp;river have also obtained a waiver on the payment of several taxes.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>India.-&nbsp;Despite strong opposition from the Council, the&nbsp;Corporation of the City of Panaji (CCP) has&nbsp;renewed the trade licences of the six offshore casino operators currently located on the&nbsp;Mandovi&nbsp;river.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This location is provisional and the government is still working on finding a <strong><em><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/india-gives-casinos-6-more-months-in-mandovi\" target=\"_blank\">definitive place<\/a><\/em><\/strong> for the offshore casinos.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mayor\u00a0Surendra Furtado\u00a0argued that the casinos had been allowed to resume operations as of November 1, and that the CCP had received requests from associated businesses, such as hotel owners and taxi operators, to renew the licences.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Casino operators also obtained a temporary waiver on payments of several taxes due to the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The licences were due to be renewed from March. The CCP will&nbsp;earn Rs5.2 million (US$69,655)&nbsp;from the renewal.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The six offshore operators on the&nbsp;Mandovi&nbsp;river have also obtained a waiver on the payment of several taxes.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11746,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"is_press_release":false,"is_interview":false,"is_opinion":false,"focusai_summary":"The Corporation of the City of Panaji (CCP) has renewed the trade licenses for six offshore casino operators on the Mandovi river, despite opposition from the Council. This decision, influenced by requests from associated businesses, also includes a temporary waiver on several taxes due to the Covid-19 pandemic, with the CCP earning Rs5.2 million from the renewals.","focusai_entities":"Corporation of the City of Panaji (CCP), Surendra Furtado","focusai_location":"India, Panaji, Mandovi river","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), regulator (0.9), compliance_legal (0.9), operator_casino (1.0), affiliate_publisher (0.7), marketing_crm (0.7), payments_fraud_aml (0.7), investor_analyst (0.9), supplier_vendor (0.8), journalist_researcher (0.9)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"Provisional Licensing Impact?","query":"What are the long-term implications of provisional operational licensing for capital investment and infrastructure development by offshore casino operators?"},{"label":"Regulatory Stability Outlook?","query":"How will the 'Council's' opposition to license renewals impact future regulatory stability and the predictability of governance frameworks for iGaming in Panaji?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,161,158,16334],"tags":[23171,58],"class_list":["post-11744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-casino-news","category-daily-news","category-slider-home","category-south-asia-news","tag-goa","tag-india"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11744","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11744"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11744\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19725,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11744\/revisions\/19725"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}