TUESDAY, MAY 21, 2024
Team Herald
PONDA: Chief Minister Dr Pramod Sawant on Friday said that in order to attract investors and industries in the State there is a need for ease of doing business and for this there is a need of system to give permissions to new investors/industries within one and half month of filing application.
The Chief Minister said, “If we provide this facility so many industries will come to Goa. Considering the next 50 years of tourism in the State, ease of doing business facility is very necessary.
Sawant was speaking after inaugurating a Common Biomedical Waste Treatment Facilities (CBWTF), at Kundaim IDC, in the presence of Waste Management Minister Atanasio Monserrate, Goa Pollution Control Board Chairman Mahesh Patil and Managing Director of Goa Waste Management Corporation (GWMC) Levinson Martins among others.
The Chief Minister said, “The biomedical waste treatment plant at Kundaim will be operating on a public-private partnership (PPP) mode. The government has not invested any money but just provided land for the plant. However, after 20 years, the government can take over the plant.”
The Chief Minister said, “After solid waste management plant at Saligao this is another state-of-the-art project for treatment of biomedical waste.
The CBWTF has capacity of treating 28 tonnes of biomedical waste per day and presently handles around two tonnes per day.”
Sawant urged the stakeholders providing medical facilities to co-operate and handover their garbage to biomedical waste treatment facilities to maintain Goa’s environment clean.
The Chief Minister appealed Goans to stop throwing their domestic waste at open spaces, nullahs and rivers but keep it at designated places so that the municipalities and panchayats’ garbage workers collect it to send it for treatment.
“In Goa untreated huge garbage is generated for the past 20 years and the past government is responsible for it, which did nothing to set up garbage treatment facilities during their rule,” the Chief Minister said.
