Team Herald

SANGUEM: The residents of Kharkhatiaghati ward of Sanguem Municipal Council are literally at war over the garbage issue haunting the residents since the Curchorem Cacora Municipal Council opened the garbage disposal site at Kharkhatiaghati Sanguem.

The issue has begun hunting the residents all the more since November last on account of the council workers setting the garbage booth degradable and non degradable on fire leading to toxic flames in and around the residential area.

Ironically though the garbage site belongs to the Curchorem Cacora Municipal Council and the waste from in and around the Curchorem Cacora Municipal Council (CCMC) and the Curchorem Industrial Estate is dumped at the site, the residents of Kharkhatiaghati ward of Sanguem Municipal Council are at the receiving end of the ill maintained garbage site.

Incidentally despite frequent requests and several letters to the authorities concerned, including the Pollution Control Board, the authorities have failed to sort out the issue and relief the residents of the air and dust pollution caused in the locality. Santano Rodrigues, a local who is spear-heading the movement against the pollution caused due to the garbage disposal site at Kharkhatiaghati, said that  since the time the CCMC has begun dumping the garbage at Kharkhatiaghati, we are made to face untold hardship and subject to frequent health problems.

Rodrigues charged the CCMC for the disposal of the garbage at Kharkhatiaghati in a much unscientific manner throwing into wind the precautions otherwise required to be followed at garbage disposal sites.

Since the time of the opening of the garbage disposal site at Kharkhatiaghati, mosquitoes and other flying insects have invaded the residential colony at Kharkhatiaghati and the residents are forced to keep their doors and windows shut for most part of the day for the fear of flying insects and mosquitoes entering into their houses.

 and sitting on eatables.

The residents have also criticised the CCMC for the burning of the garbage without taking any precautions thereby subjecting the residents to air pollution particularly in the early morning hours. 

With the authorities failing to take any action against the CCMC and issuing necessary directions to control the air pollution, the residents have now approached the High Court with a letter petition to direct the CCMC to take necessary precautions in the disposal of garbage at Kharkhatiaghati in Sanguem taluka.