PANJIM: The Corporation of the City of Panaji (CCP) has decided to approach the government to reclaim its land at Bainguinim after the project to set up waste management plant has failed to take off for nearly three years.
The CCP now wants their 1.71 lakh sq mtrs of land, handed over for the facility, back.
The CCP standing committee at a meeting on Wednesday decided to write to government to hand over the Bainguinim land, which was transferred to Goa Waste Management Corporation (GWMC) in 2017, back to the Corporation.
The government has currently kept the proposed facility on hold in view of financial crisis as a result of COVID-19 pandemic and the project has already witnessed opposition from the locals.
“The Corporation is facing difficulty to dump and to treat dry and wet waste, after High Court restricted from dumping waste at Campal ground. We had approached GWMC to hand over 25,000 sq mtrs of land from Bainguinim site to treat the waste from the city. However, they wrote us letter stating only 4,000 sq mtrs of land can be given to us,” Mayor Uday Madkaikar said.
Madkaikar said that the land is not enough and also government was supposed to come up with the plant at Bainguinim within six months, whereas over three years have passed.
“Standing committee has decided to write to Government on Monday, August 24, demanding that entire 1.71 lakh sq mtrs of land be handed over back to us,” he said.
The CCP, in 2009, had acquired 1.71 lakh sq mtrs of land at Bainguinim to set up the plant to handle the waste generated in the capital. However, the proposal was caught in a legal battle, following an objection raised by the local village panchayat.
