VASCO: A newly set up solid waste treatment plant functioning on the bio-mining technology was inaugurated by Minister for Waste Management Micheal Lobo in presence of Urban Development Minister Milind Naik and Mormugao Municipal Councilors and locals on Thursday evening.
Lobo said that the objective to form a Waste Management Corporation is to bring four solid waste treatment plants of higher capacity in Goa and to solve the garbage problem from the State.
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Speaking to reporters after the inaugural formal function of the new waste treatment plant, Lobo stated that the garbage management corporation was formed to set up four high capacity garbage waste treatment plants in Goa and to clear all the waste stacked as well as generated in the state.
He further said that from these plants one plant will incinerate the dry non-biodegradable waste and from that a power has to be produced from it. “Cacora SWTP work is in progress; the environment impact assessment of Verna and Bainguinim plants has been completed; and we are going to ask for an expression of interest. For Verna plant, we are going to give order for Environment Impact Assessment and already few companies have come forward in this regard,” he added.
Lobo said that the existing waste is 1.5 lakh cubic metre. And to treat this waste this new machinery has been set up. The waste which will come from RDA wing will be sent to a cement factory in Karnataka.
“RDF waste to transport from Goa to Karnataka is very expensive, therefore, we want that RDF waste should be treated in Goa and from that electricity can be generated. To show this technology few months back some journalists were also taken to Norway and Sweden and we have studied the technology and efforts are in pipeline to replicate this foreign technology in Goa,” Lobo explained.
Later, Milind Naik stated that since he has been elected as an MLA from Mormugao constituency, his objective is to make his constituency garbage free.
Naik said that he is thankful to Minister Lobo for taking steps in clearing waste from Goa.
Naik also added that he has been consistently following up with the garbage treatment plant issue. He hoped that the legacy waste would be cleared within the next few months.
