Team Herald
MAPUSA: Piles of garbage lying alongside the highway at Thivim has turned it into a garbage dump. This highway leads to Belgum and other parts of Karnataka.
The garbage pile grows by the day and it concerns the locals because just months earlier it was very clean and neat. Some locals allege that travellers dump garbage and then there are those who claim it is the residents of newly formed colonies who have made this location into a dumping area.
With no proper disposal facility such as dustbins, people are throwing their daily household waste, plastic waste as well as construction debris here.
There is so much of garbage that it is being neglected by local as well as State authorities. The panchayat as well as the pollution board have chosen not to act.
Sources said that when the quantity of garbage was less, the pollution board used to place two dustbins and collect it twice a month, but now they have stopped doing so and have also removed the dustbins. The garbage which was collected once in fifteen days has not done been in the recent past.
D’Souza, a local, said that travellers started throwing garbage here thinking it was a garbage dumping zone. “It is the duty of the pollution board as well as the panchayat, since it is a national highway which also falls under the panchayat jurisdiction but none of them are bothered,” he pointed out.
