FRIDAY, MAY 03, 2024
Team Herald
VASCO: Continuing its drive against encroachments, the Mormugao municipal workers confiscated goods of vendors at Mangor and Varunapuri areas.
The anti-encroachment drive was carried out in the presence of Mormugao Municipal Council (MMC) chairperson Leo Rodrigues, market committee chairman and Councillor Vinod Kinlekar, other councillors and municipal market inspectors.
The municipal workers confiscated fruits and vegetables which were sold at illegal stalls at Mangor and near Varunapuri circle. The workers also dismantled make-shift structures erected illegally and allegedly used for anti-social activities.
Rodrigues said that the municipality had already taken unanimous decision to continue the drive against encroachments which will continue in all the municipal wards. He said that the municipal council had received complaints from Vasco Traffic Cell PI Shailesh Narvekar that encroachments were causing hindrance to smooth flow of traffic and often resulting in accidents and wanted the municipality to initiate action against these encroachments.
Stating that the MMC will not turn a Nelson’s eye to such illegalities, Rodrigues said that the anti-encroachment drive will continue in the town. He said that similar drive was earlier taken in the Vasco vegetable and fish markets wherein goods of the encroachers were confiscated.
Meanwhile, a group of vendors on Thursday marched to the MMC demanding that the goods seized during the anti-encroachment drive be handed over to them. They said that the municipality should release the seized goods by imposing fines and strongly opposed council’s decision to offer the seized goods to old-age homes and orphanages.
