MARGAO, SEPT 11
There seems to be no end to the garbage mess facing the Commercial Capital despite Chief Minister Digambar Kamat’s decision to personally look into the problem.
Believe it or not, more than half the road leading to the wholesale fish market at Madel was occupied by mounds of garbage. Daily visitors and vendors to the wholesale fish market had to face the double hardship of crossing the road and to contend with the waste all scattered around.
City-based Citizens Welfare Committee president Savio Dias said the authorities including the Margao Municipal Council have been taking lightly the task of clearing waste dumped along the road to the wholesale fish market.
He said clearance of waste from the Madel areas of the city has been irregular in recent times, posing nuisance and a health hazard to the residents.
Sources in the know said that the Madel-Davondem area of the city is the favourite dumping ground for hotel waste by garbage contractors.
Sources do not rule out the possibility of a collusion between garbage contractors and unscrupulous elements in the civic body emboldening the contractors to dump waste in the jurisdiction of the civic body.
