Convenor of Margao-based NGO, Movement for Amity towards in Goa (MARG), and freedom fighter, Gurunath Kelekar has expressed concern over the deteriorating traffic situation in the town and conveyed his unhappiness over the absence of any initiative to tide over the problem.
Kelekar said Margao needs a whole lot of measures to stem the rot. “I feel that the present regime has failed to devote attention to the town’s traffic requirements from day one.
Former chief minister Manohar Parrikar somehow could not find time to address the town’s traffic needs. And, the situation has not changed for the better with a change in guard,” remarked Kelekar, whose organisation no longer receives government grants to spread traffic education across the state.
And, the freedom fighter says that some of the infrastructural deficiencies the town is facing today, including traffic signals, manpower shortage facing the traffic cell, could have been resolved by the previous government headed by then chief minister Digambar Kamat.
“The home guards need training; the town needs a mobile traffic squad to check indiscipline; godowns should be moved out from the heart of the town; there ought to be proper marking and painting of the traffic signs; the traffic signals should be installed at the earliest etc.
These are small things which can be done without much funds,” he said, while adding that a couple of flyovers should be put in place as part of a long-term solution.
