PONDA: Following a news report by O Heraldo highlighting the difficulties encountered by the Sacorda villagers due to pollution in Ragada River and the PWD failing to arrange for tankers to provide potable water for past two weeks, the PWD on Thursday started four water tankers to supply water to the villagers, while the Dharbandora Deputy Collector directed Dharbandora Mamlatdar to call meeting of PWD officials and discuss the issue with villagers.
Accordingly, Dharbandora Mamlatdar, Laxmikant Kuttikar has convened a meeting on Friday, March 8 at the conference Hall of the Dharbandora Deputy Collector’s office at Dharbandora at 11 am.
The meeting notice has been served to Police Inspector,Collem; Executive Engineers WRD at Gogal-Margao; Executive Engineer PWD, Fatorda-Margao; AEs of Water Supply and WRD Dharbandora; Health Officer at PHC Pilem, Dharbandora;Sarpanch and Panch members of VP Sacorda and also to five villagers of Sacorda.
The PWD has said that it supplies clean water and is treating Ragada River water before supplying it to the villagers. Further,the test report of this treated water has been found within permissible limits.
However, villagers claim is that they have tested the river water in Health Department lab and report revealed the water is polluted and unfit for consumption.
PWD provides 4 water tankers after O Heraldo report
PONDA: The PWD on Thursday started the supply of water through four tankers to Sacorda villagers, while it is learnt that the panchayat has revoked the NOC granted to owner for frog ponds, based on which six ponds were illegally constructed.
Local villager Bipin Naik thanked O Heraldo for highlighting their issues. He said PWD failed to take immediate action to supply clean water from tankers till the matter got reported by the newspaper.
“Today they supplied water through tankers after media report. PWD will supply us tanker water for few days, but we want uninterrupted supply of clean drinking water. We want a permanent solution. There should be a good quality filter plant installed on Ragada River to supply us clean drinking water, similar to the Opa treatment plant. We will stress for this demand tomorrow,” Naik said.
Nilesh Mapari, another villager, said the government authorities failed to conduct immediate inspection of Ragada River, due to which people faced water crisis. Sham Pawar said government needs to clean the river.
“We faced lot of hardship due to polluted water,” Pawar said.
