Locals from various villages across the Nuvem constituency have come together on a common platform to reiterate their opposition to the proposed 250+ 20% TPD Solid Waste Management (SWM) plant that the State government intends to set up on the Verna plateau.
The villagers, who addressed the media on Wednesday, pointed out that since 2017, they have been opposing this SWM plant, which is slated to cater to the garbage of 39 villages and three municipalities of the entire South Goa District.
They emphasised that there is no justification for the Nuvem constituency to bear the entire garbage burden of the district since decentralised garbage management is being carried out by the respective villages as mandated by the Supreme Court.
A group comprising Ramiro Mascarenhas, convenor of the ‘Concerned citizens of Nuvem constituency’, Nagoa resident John Philip Pereira, Verna Sarpanch Nazia D’Costa, Loutolim Deputy Sarpanch Celina Braganza, and many others including elected representatives, demanded that the project be scrapped as it would push the Verna plateau and its surrounding villages to the brink of disaster.
