Team Herald
PANJIM: With a focus on zero-waste and zero-landfill approach, the State government has initiated process to draft a Solid Waste Management Policy for Goa.
The Goa Waste Management Corporation (GWMC) has been entrusted to prepare a holistic policy. The GWMC has appointed Karnataka-based M/s Infrastructure Development Corporation Limited (iDeCK) for the preparation of State level policy.
A senior official said that over the past two decades, even after concerted campaigns to manage the handling and disposal of solid waste, the State finds that there is an imperative need to address the issue of waste management holistically and substantially, through a framework of a policy, with the support of rules and regulations, compliances and remedial actions in cases where there is non-compliance.
“Equally, there is a need to educate and sensitise the people of the State through social campaigns and information programmes,” the official said.
Minister for Waste management Atanasio ‘Babush’ Monserrate had recently said that the State government is committed to make Goa a garbage-free State by 2027.
At present, two solid waste management plants are operational at Saligao (North Goa) and Cacora (South Goa) respectively. The GWMC is in process of setting up third plant at Bainguinim for Central Goa while a fourth plant is proposed to be set up at Verna Industrial Estate to handle waste from Mormugao Taluka and some parts of Salcete.
