VASCO: Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar on Sunday said that the state government intends to use central government scheme to provide proper housing facilities to the poor who have been living under shanties in Zuarinagar slums as these people will be given flats at a subsidized cost.
“Under various schemes of Government of India, one scheme is “Own Your House’. Thus under this scheme the state government intends to provide proper housing facility to poor people living in shanties at Zuarinagar and these people will be give flats at subsidized cost” Parrikar said.
He further added that “Lots of subsidy is available from central government, it will be coupled by some subsidy from state government, but basically the idea is to convert shanties in slums into developed structures. It will take lesser space, plus the area will be cleaned, more open and green area will be left, so we had promised for rehabilitation and the same will be fulfilled in days to come” Parrikar told.
Meanwhile, commenting on the state government’s plans to resolve existing issue of garbage faced by several panchayats in Mormugao taluka as well as Mormugao Municipal Council, Parrikar said, “Solid Waste Management Corporation has been formed, next week the newly-formed core team will sit and will be officially taking the responsibility of garbage situation across Goa. All sorts of waste including e-waste, construction debris, hazardous waste, bio-medical waste etc will be mapped. By doing this, we would speed up the process in one or two places. In next two to three months, corporation will have actual data of how much garbage is generated by each municipality or panchayat and present current system followed by them to disposed off their waste” he said.
