{"id":8530,"date":"2020-07-29T22:53:17","date_gmt":"2020-07-29T22:53:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=8530"},"modified":"2026-04-24T03:12:50","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T06:12:50","slug":"india-panaji-wont-renew-offshore-casino-licences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/india-panaji-wont-renew-offshore-casino-licences","title":{"rendered":"India: Panaji won&#8217;t renew offshore casino licences"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Six offshore casino vessels anchored by the Mandovi river won&#8217;t receive the renewal of their licences.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>India.- Six offshore casinos in Panaji, the state capital of Goa in southwest India, will be unable to reopen after the Corporation of the City of Panaji (CCP) said it would withhold the renewal of trade licences for the casino vessels anchored in the Mandovi river.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The casinos remain closed since mid-March, when lockdown measures were introduced to fight Covid-19 spreading, but city authorities don&#8217;t want to see them reopen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>CCP mayor Uday Madkaikar said: &#8220;There is chaos on the streets of Panaji during evening when offshore casinos attract maximum footfalls for the day.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The licences of the casinos were due for renewal after March 31.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Currently <strong><em><a aria-label=\"undefined (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/india-to-delay-new-rules-for-casinos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">new legislation for casinos<\/a><\/em><\/strong> is being discussed in India, under which tourists would need a permit to enter venues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Six offshore casino vessels anchored by the Mandovi river won&#8217;t receive the renewal of their licences.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8532,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"is_press_release":false,"is_interview":false,"is_opinion":false,"focusai_summary":"Six offshore casino vessels in Goa, India, will not have their trade licenses renewed by the Corporation of the City of Panaji (CCP), effectively preventing their reopening. This decision, citing public order concerns, significantly impacts the operational status of these gaming establishments post-COVID-19 lockdown. Concurrently, new national legislation, potentially requiring tourist permits for casino entry, is under discussion.","focusai_entities":"Corporation of the City of Panaji (CCP), Uday Madkaikar","focusai_location":"India, Goa, Panaji","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), regulator (0.95), compliance_legal (0.9), operator_casino (1.0), investor_analyst (0.9), supplier_vendor (0.75), journalist_researcher (0.9)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"Legal Recourse Options","query":"What are the specific legal avenues available to the affected offshore casino operators to challenge the CCP's non-renewal decision, and what is the precedent for such challenges in Indian jurisprudence?"},{"label":"National Legislation Impact","query":"How will the proposed national legislation, including the tourist permit requirement, integrate with or supersede local municipal licensing powers, and what is the projected timeline for its enactment?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,158,16334],"tags":[12436,23171,58],"class_list":["post-8530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-casino-news","category-slider-home","category-south-asia-news","tag-casinos","tag-goa","tag-india"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8530","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=8530"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8530\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8553,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8530\/revisions\/8553"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}