TEAM HERALD
CANACONA: Following the destruction of its Dumane garbage treatment plant in a fire, Canacona Municipal Council (CMC) will discuss the issue threadbare at a specially convened council meeting on Friday.
When contacted, CMC Chairperson Simon Rebello informed that the fire incident at Dumane garbage treatment plant has now put undue pressure on the council in its endeavour to streamline and resolve the garbage problem.
It may be recalled that CMC, often pulled up by court strictures in the past two years, succeeded in finalizing and acquiring land at Dumane and finally installed a garbage treatment plant (GTP) by spending about Rs 1 crore in May 2012.
The GTP however functioned only for a few days, while CMC sources claiming the GTP developed snags, only continued to transport and dump garbage inside the compound. With the council headed by Rebello taking the initiative, a team of technicians to repair the plant was scheduled to visit this week; however, the entire GTP’s machinery was destroyed in the fire last Sunday. CMC filed a police complaint and police are investigating the cause of fire, even as heaps of garbage inside the DGTP compound is still on fire.
Admitting that the Dumane GTP will be just a garbage dumping yard in the absence of a treatment plant, Rebello stated that the special council meeting on Friday would arrive at a solution.
Meanwhile, heaps of garbage continues to burn at the Dumane garbage treatment plant, emanating smoke and foul odour all round the locality.
