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A single offender will have to pay Rs 2,000, while a group will be fined Rs 10,000. Shacks to ensure tourists don’t take away boozePANAJI: Those found drinking on beaches, cooking in the open or littering public places now stand to be fined. The proposed amendment will be tabled in the three-day assembly session starting on Tuesday next week, Azgaonkar said.It has been observed that many tourists carry alcohol bottles with them to the beach, which they then discard in the sand. Sometimes, broken glass bottles are left behind in the sand, and there have been instances of visitors to the beach sustaining injuries because of the shards. It has been proposed that no person engaged in the business of sale of liquor shall allow customers to carry bottles or cans containing liquor in tourist places.Guests to beach shacks sometimes buy alcohol and take it with them to drink elsewhere..