PANJIM: The Imagine Panaji Smart City Development Limited (IPSCDL) in its compliance report has stated that all the ongoing works are on track to make road carriageway functional by May 31 this year
The compliance report was filed by the managing director and chief executive officer of IPSCDL Sanjit Rodrigues, IAS, in pursuance of the court order.
In his compliance report, Rodrigues has stated that the contact numbers of nodal officers from the IPSCDL were also shared so that the citizens and also published in newspapers so that citizens could voice their concerns and alert the office to enable remedial actions to be taken immediately.
He further stated that the five private contractors were regularly watering the roads, minimum three times a day and were maintaining a daily watering log, which were certified by the executing departments daily.
These private agencies has taken additional measures to minimise dust pollution by mobilising certain equipment such as skid steer sweeper to remove the dust mechanically. Furthermore additional labour has been deployed by the contractors to remove the dust manually. The excess material i.e. the excavated mud and other debris is removed and only material that is required for backfilling is retained and water is sprinkled on the same in order to minimise the dust pollution. All these measures had improved the situation considerably, Rodrigues has stated in his compliance report.
Also steps are taken to ensure that water does not get stagnated at the site. It further discloses that safety gear is provided to all the workers at the site with photographic proof.
Regarding concerns raised by the residents pertaining to the mismatch between the road and footpath, the IPSCDL managing director has stated that it had engaged a specialised road milling machine to scrape the bituminous layer of the road in order to bring the height of the road below that of the footpath.This machine does not produce any dust. A total of 870 metres of road length had been milled as on April 15. This exercise had addressed the concerns on mismatch of road-pavement levels in totality.
The Court has also asked the IPSCDL managing director and CEO to file another compliance report by June 10 and has posted the matter for further hearing on June 11.
