A Margao Municipal Council truck caught pink handed whereas dumping waste at Benaulim.
| The Goan Community
Margao: The Margao Municipal Council was lastly caught pink handed within the act of dumping combined waste, together with coconut waste in neighbouring Benaulim, as Benaulikars cried foul over the MMC’s waste dumping exercise, fearing a Sonsodo is within the making within the village.
After Municipal vehicles had been caught on digicam unloading tons of combined and unsegregated waste in Benaulim on the banks of river Sal alongside the western bypass underneath development, Margao Municipal Metropolis fathers and Babus had been left pink confronted and embarrassed because the civic physique had no clarification to supply over its exercise of unlawful disposal of waste in a neighbouring village.
Irate locals slam MMC over unlawful waste dumping
Benaulim locals slammed the civic physique for disposing of the town waste within the village when the MMC has come underneath the lens of the Excessive Court docket for its utter failure to resolve the Sonsodo imbroglio.
Native farmers, Benaulim Sarpanch Xavier Periera, Benaulim MLA Venzy Viegas, Warren Alemao and others descended on the spot after video went viral exhibiting Margao Municipal vehicles unloading the unsegregated waste on the spot.
The Benaulim Sarpanch identified that the panchayat physique would lodge a proper grievance with the Colva police on Thursday towards the Margao Municipal Council. “How can the MMC dump its waste at Benaulim when the civic physique has submitted its plan of motion within the Excessive Court docket to sort out the town waste. “The MMC fines residents for disposing of waste alongside the town street sides. Now, the civic physique has been caught red-handed dumping the town waste in Benaulim. The Panchayat will provoke motion towards the civic physique as per the principles in pressure”, Xavier mentioned.
Residents cry foul over unlawful waste dumping
Benaulim resident Roque Fernandes, who had protested over the unlawful wasted dumping within the village on Wednesday, questioned how come the civic physique disposes of its waste within the neighbouring village when it’s charging big rubbish charges on the town households and industrial institutions. “The waste dumping has taken place near the river Sal. Whoever has dumped ought to be held accountable and made to carry away the waste”, Roque mentioned.
Warren Alemao warned that the individuals of Benaulim will gather the waste and dump it in Margao if the Margao Municipality doesn’t carry away the waste instantly. “That is completely unacceptable. The Benaulim MLA Venzy Viegas ought to clarify the individuals how the waste from Margao Municipality managed by MLA Digambar Kamat has come into Benaulim”, he demanded.