TEAM HERALD
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MARGAO: There’s good news in store for the Cuncolim Industrial Estate plagued by pollution.
A Japanese agency through JICA will take up bio-remediation of the hazardous waste dumped at the Industrial Estate ~ thanks to an initiative by the Goa State Pollution Control Board.
As per the agreement entered into by the GSPCB with JICA, the agency will conduct a detailed study of the industrial estate playing host to thousands of tons of hazardous waste. “We will de-contaminate the waste lying around the industrial estate,” informed JICA’s representative P Sreenivasulu Reddy. He told Herald that work on the de-contamination of the waste would begin after a pilot study at the estate.
GSPCB Member Secretary Levinson Martins informed that the Board has asked the agency to carry out bio-remediation of the waste to contain water pollution. “We want to ensure that pollutants from the estate do not find way into the canal or the adjoining rivulet which joins the river Sal at Assolna. Since the Board has taken up the work of cleaning up of the river Sal, we also want remediation of the hazardous waste so that pollutants from the estate do not flow into the river,” Martins said.
A delegation of the Japanese agency along with GSPCB officials descended on industrial estate to have first hand information about the hazardous waste dumped in the estate. Officials of the agency will visit the Industrial estate by next month to carry out detailed study before they take up the actual work around October-November.
