Team Herald
CURCHOREM: The much awaited Rs 173 crore, 100 tonnes Solid Waste Management Facility (SWMF) plant at Cacora-Curchorem is near completion and likely to be inaugurated on the Goa’s Statehood Day next month.
According to the sources, the plant for which the foundation stone was laid in December in 2019 by Chief Minister Dr Pramod Sawant is almost completed and most likely to be inaugurated in next month after conducting trial next week.
Local MLA Nilesh Cabral during his inspection of the plant last year had said that the shortcomings from the Saligao plant had been taken care of and accordingly modification for this (Cacora) plant were made.
“A provision has also been made to generate 2 to 3 KW of gas-based plus solar power from this plant everyday by using the factory’s entire rooftop,” he said.
He also said that the neighbouring municipalities/panchayats from Talukas of Quepem, Sanguem, Dharbandora and Canacona have to segregate and keep it at their own respective premises which would be collected by the company’s vehicles.
It may be recalled that people from Curchorem and particularly from Cacora ward were opposing the SWMP and in 2012 it became the main issue during the municipality elections and later even the then Curchorem MLA Shyam Satardekar was opposing this plant in Curchorem during Assembly elections but Cabral assured that he will study the functioning of the plant at Saligao and then only give his nod to the plant in Curchorem only if the people are fully satisfied.
He also took stakeholders including some Curchorem-Cacora Municipal Council councillors to foreign countries to see and study the functioning of this type of plant.
