TEAM HERALD
VASCO: Vasco residents and those staying in the jurisdiction of Mormugao Municipal Council (MMC) have raised serious concern over the pending work of well cleaning done by MMC every year.
There are over 200 wells in MMC’s jurisdiction of which around 80 wells are presently used by hundreds of residents. This year MMC is yet to take on cleaning work and that has irked the residents.
“Since the last few years MMC was cleaning the wells much before the monsoon. However this year the monsoon is at the door steps but there is no sign of well cleaning and we fear that people using the well water would fall ill if the same is not cleaned before the monsoon,” complained John D’Silva, a resident of Sasmollem Baina.
Sources at MMC said that the job of cleaning of wells is not listed in routine development work done by MMC, however, as there are over 100 wells used by hundreds of people MMC took this decision and started cleaning of wells which received good response from the residents. In the last two years MMC has abandoned the work, explained opposition leader MMC Neny D’Souza.
“The intention behind cleaning of wells is good but I don’t understand as to why MMC abandoned the work since the last two years and this year as the issue was raised in the council meeting the same should have started till now,” D’Souza said.
Seeing the growing disappointment, MMC officials have assured that the work would commence soon.
and would be completed before the monsoon. “It’s not that we don’t want to carryout well cleaning work but as there was some petty issue of funds the same got delayed as done in past we would clean the wells before June 3,” MMC councillor Shekhar Khadapkar said.
