Police asked to remove abandoned vehicles

PANJIM, JULY 2
The Voluntary Health Association of Goa has expressed its unhappiness over Panjim police’s inaction over removal of abandoned vehicles lying close to the Town Police Station and maintained the same were sure breeding sites for malarial mosquitoes on account of water stagnation in them during the current monsoon season.
In a letter addressed to the police inspector VHAG pointed out that during their monitoring and surveillance to check for breeding sites for mosquitoes in Panjim and in surrounding areas it had found that there were quite a few abandoned vehicles lying just opposite the Panjim police station. It was observed rains water had accumulated in these vehicles and the same had turned into potential breeding sites for mosquitoes, it pointed out. 
Embarrassingly, the letter further states, “Besides being a breeding site for mosquitoes, the vehicles are an eyesore to the capital city. In addition, they take up valuable parking space and are also a violation of human rights, i.e. they deny the right of the public to walk on the footpath. The public has to walk on the road and are thus gullible to accidents.”
Copies of VHAG’s letter to the Panjim police were also forwarded to the Urban Health Centre, here, Commissioner of the Corporation of the City of Panjim and Tiswadi Deputy Collector Sabaji Shetye.  
After VHAG’s representation to the town police, the Health Officer at the city’s Urban Health Centre Pradeep Korgaonkar too made a letter to the Superintendent of Police at the Police Headquarters to clear the vehicles to avoid the outbreak of diseases like malaria, chikungunya, dengue, etc.