The five floating casinos in the Indian state of Goa could find a new permanent home after a private investor offered to establish a “special offshore casino zone.”

In March, Goa’s state government bucked public pressure and controversially renewed the licenses of its floating casinos for a one-year period on the condition that the casinos find somewhere other than the Mandovi river to call home.

Over the weekend, Gayatriraje Chowgule told The Nahvind Times that she’d pitched the government on relocating the casinos to a stretch of land the family’s Chowgule Group owns along the Zuari river near Chicalim, about 3km from Dabolim international airport.

Chowgule said the family had approached the government in February but had yet to enter into agreements with the casino owners. Chowgule insisted that the family wouldn’t be “hosting the casinos … we are only facilitating the government” and it was up to the government to decide whether to authorize the casinos to dock at the site.