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PANJIM: Pressure is mounting on the ruling council of the Corporation of the City of Panjim to expedite work on the Bainguinim garbage disposal plant with corporators alleging that garbage is being dumped at Campal, a charge which was disputed by the commissioner.
The work order to build a compound wall was issued in 2010 and land admeasuring 1,71,312 sq mts was handed over to the CCP in November 2008. However, hardly any work is completed and the city still reels under the ticking time bomb ~garbage.
Stating that as the permission from the Old Goa panchayat had not come within the stipulated 30 days time, the CCP had approached the director of panchayats and got an order asking the sarpanch to clear the project file. Commissioner Sanjit Rodrigues said that the 30 days time would expire next week and then further action would be possible. But corporators urged him to approach the court – even as the case is already in Court – and get relief.
The commissioner briefed the councilors that initially the CCP had awarded the work to build a compound wall in Bainguinim to a contractor, then asked him to stop work vide a letter and then restart it. Then as late as November 30, 2011, the Old Goa sarpanch had asked the contractor not to continue the work.
Now the CCP decided to stop him from executing the work and instead decided that GSIDC would do work as it was anyway doing the land development. CCP then decided to go to the standing committee and ask it to issue a foreclosure and halt his work.
At present the municipal engineer is estimating the amount of work done by the contractor to pay him off, the commissioner said.
“I am following it up on a day to day basis,” Rodridues told the council meeting.
It may be recalled that an earlier CCP meeting had cleared a proposal for acquiring additional land bearing survey number 31/1, 34/1-C and 34/1-C-1 of the village of Goalim-Maula, Bainguinim for integrated solid waste management facility. The commissioner had informed the corporators that a presentation enlisting the technology and methodology for treatment of dry and wet waste was approved by the government and a related, detailed request for proposal document was ready.
