Team Herald
PANJIM: The National Highways Authority of India (NHA) along with the State government will conduct a three-day inspection along National Highways to identify sites to set up garbage collection stations.
With garbage strewn along the NH getting piling up daily, Goa State Pollution Control Board monitoring the NH cleaning process by private contractors, had proposed setting up of 10 large garbage collection stations along the highways. Currently, there are 60 collection centres along the highways.
The Board, along with the officials of NHA, Goa State Infrastructure Development Corporation and contractors – BVG India Ltd and Mahalsa Services met to identify locations along the highways where collection centres can be set up. The meeting also decided to utilize the PWD shed at Farmadgudi, Ponda for processing dry waste.
Speaking to Herald soon after the meeting, GSPCB chairman Jose Manuel Noronha said that NHA officials along with GSPCB, GSIDC and PWD will conduct the three-day inspection from Tuesday. “The waste will be segregated by plastic, paper, tin,” he said.
The waste collected will be sent to Sarvana bailing station at Bicholim, and from there it will be taken to Vasavadatta Cement.
In a bid to regulate garbage collection along highways it was decided to monitor the cleaning process, undertaken by various private contractors.
