Panaji, Oct 16 (PTI) The Central Empowered Committee of the Supreme Court on Thursday met the stakeholders in Goa against the backdrop of the state government's Special Leave Petition challenging a High Court order to notify a tiger reserve.

Committee members Chandra Prakash Goyal and Sunil Limaye met the stakeholders including representatives of Goa Foundation, an NGO which had filed the original petition before the Goa bench of the Bombay High Court.

Representatives of assembly constituencies of Valpoi, Poriem, Canacona and Sanguem also met the CEC members who are on a two-day visit to the coastal state.

Talking to reporters, Goa Foundation director Claud Alvares said the committee gave them a hearing. "They heard us....We don't know whether they are convinced or not, because more peo

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