Team Herald
MARGAO: Volunteers of Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) and Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) on Thursday took initiative to clean tarballs from the the beaches of the coastal belt, as the government failed to act timely, despite assurance from the Tourism Minister Babu Ajgaonkar.
A team of volunteers led by senior AAP leader Captain Venzy Viegas held a cleaning drive at Benaulim beach. Speaking to the media persons, Venzy Viegas said that they had appealed to the people and AAP volunteers to join hands in removing the tarballs from the beaches.
“We have collected nearly 36 bags of tar balls from the Benaulim beach, and have handed them over to the company appointed by the government for the cleaning of the beaches,” said Viegas.
He claimed its shame to the government that they failed to act timely. “Actually the government should have shown the seriousness in cleaning the beaches immediately so that the people and tourists won’t suffer,” said Viegas.
On the other hand, several volunteers of NCP, Benaulim MLA Churchill Alemao held a cleaning drive at Colva beach.
Warren Alemao, who led the volunteers, said, “Colva beach has been declared as the iconic beach of India, and hence we have decided to start the cleaning drive from this beach. We will clean the beaches of Benaulim, Varca, Orlim, Cavelossim in the coming days,” he said.
Warren said that there is nothing political in this cleaning campaign of the beaches. Churchill’s son Savio Alemao also participated in the drive.
