The latest images sent to Herald shed light on the awful condition of some areas due to
garbage piling up. A Garbage Sentinel Claudious D’Costa from Girdolim passes
through Ram Nagri every day and is infuriated at the loads of garbage along the
whole street. “It’s more than a kilometre! Earlier, they used to dump trash at
the junction. Even people travelling in expensive cars behind tinted glasses
stop by the road and just dump the garbage there. It’s like they see garbage
anywhere and go and dump more,” shares Claudious.
He mentions that the garbage comes from
the locals because the disposing facilities are only available to few residential
areas. “Garbage found is so filthy, animal waste is thrown in gunny bags out in
the open, the street dogs then come and make the mess even worse,” he says.
Recently, youngsters from the village
gathered and had a cleanup in Girdolim. “People should know the value of
someone else’s helping hand and not dirty the place again.” Similarly, locals
called up Herald and spoke to them about the place Zoriwaddo-Davorlim. “It is
now known as a ‘kachra’lane,” says one of them.
Venan Dias, resident of St Estevam,
emailed Herald about the place and its garbage problems. “One of the beautiful
villages of Goa called St Estevam, a small island, is destroyed by its very own
people by strewing garbage everywhere. Houses that are closed have become
dumping grounds. The Panchayat is ineffective in tackling this issue,” she
highlights.
Herald-Drishti will soon look into all these factors and move on
to their next clean up in the coming weeks. A contribution from the local
garbage sentinels and our initiative together can achieve good results.
MOST
IMPORTANT MESSAGE: On this World Environment Day, we need to remind ourselves
that not just cleaning is important, but maintaining the cleaned up areas is
the answer to all the garbage problems.
