MARGAO: Thanking Herald for highlighting the issue of pollution due to coal transportation, South Goa Member of Parliament Francisco Sardinha said people also don’t want a National Highway at the coast of Goa’s ecology.
Addressing the media persons at Margao on Saturday he also alleged that the BJP government failed in delivering the expectations of people in the last 10 years and fooled the Goan by giving false assurances.
Sardinha said he raised the issues pertaining to no network connectivity in the rural villages of Goa, besides objected to the three linear projects at the Parliament session.
“I thank the Herald for highlighting the pollution due to coal transportation. Vasco being the touristic place, such type of pollution needs to be avoided. The government is engaged in making a national highway by cutting down the trees”, he said.
Reacting to allegations by the Chief Minister Dr Pramod Sawant with regard to the Sonsoddo issue and primary health center at Curtorim, the MP urged the CM not only to concentrate on his own constituency but open his eyes and look into the problems of other places.
“The Curtorim health center has been without vehicles for the last many years and doctors are forced to go for inspections and other works with the ambulance. I urge the CM and health minister to provide one vehicle for the health center”, he said.
Sardinha also said that the Sonsoddo dump yard falls in the jurisdiction of Fatorda constituency.
“However, the people of Curtorim and Raia are forced to bear the problems due to the mess at Sonsoddo. The Margao Municipality should have utilised the land measuring nearly 30,000 square meters at Sonsoddo in order to resolve the issue. It was acquired in 1994 and is still lying abandoned without any use”, he stated.
He also demanded a good hospital on the land of the old leprosy hospital at Curtorim.
