PANJIM: Flying squads will be deputed to ensure that no debris is dumped along highways and other public places while municipalities and panchayats having been directed to remove existing debris by the end of May.
This was told to the Division Bench of the High Court of Bombay at Goa by the State government on Friday regarding steps being taken to tackle dumping of debris along the roads.
The Court was also given details of the meeting convened by the Advocate General on April 30 which was attended by Adv Norma Alvares, Adv Aires Rodrigues and heads of the departments concerned to devise ways to handle the menace of debris dumping.
Rodrigues, in his contempt petition, had pointed out that in 2007 a PIL was filed over the rampant dumping of building debris along the Panjim-Old Goa bypass and that taking serious note of the gross violations of law, various orders came to be passed by the High Court in that petition.
Rodrigues further stated that the State government had undertaken to continue and take to its logical conclusion investigations into the dumping of construction debris on the Panjim-Old Goa bypass.
“It was very anguishing that it is almost a decade and over the years the Goa government has done nothing to comply with the solemn undertaking given to the High Court on 26th June 2008 and that the mala fide conduct of the authorities amounts to rank disobedience to the orders of the Court,” Rodrigues said.
Meanwhile, the High Court adjourned the matter to June 5 further hearing on the contempt petition filed by Rodrigues over the inaction of the authorities on the continued dumping of debris and garbage along the Panjim-Old Goa bypass road.
