MARGAO: The Chandor Cavorim panchayat has taken littering the village very seriously and on Wednesday fined a lecturer of Chowgule College who is a native of Curchorem as they found his garbage dumped by the roadside in the village.
The professor while admitting the documents found in the trash bag to be his however denied having thrown it in the village and had no explanation how his waste landed in Chandor when he resides at Margao and travels to his native house at Curchorem often.
After much discussion where the professor claimed to have students from the village and pleaded for leniency as it would embarrass him before the students, the panchayat fined him only Rs 2000 even though the gram sabha had resolved that anybody from other villages dumping their garbage in Chandor be fined the maximum amount of Rs 5,000.
