PANJIM: As the State Government failed to come up with the Integrated Solid Waste Management Plant (ISWMP) at Bainguinim in three years, the Corporation of the City of Panaji (CCP) wants their 1.71 lakh sq mtrs of land, handed over for the facility, back.
The CCP standing committee during its meeting held today decided to write to government to hand over back the Bainguinim land, which was transferred to Goa Waste Management Corporation (GWMC) way back in 2017.
The government has currently kept the proposed facility on hold in view of financial crisis as result of Covid pandrmic.
Speaking to reporters post meeting, Mayor Uday Madkaikar said that the Corporation is facing difficulty to dump and treat it’s dry and wet waste, after High Court restricted them drom dumping waste at Campal dumping site.
” We had approached GWMC to hand over 25,000 sq mtrs of land from Bainguinim site to treat the waste from the city. However, they wrote us letter stating only 4,000 sq mtrs of land can be given to us,” he said.
Madkaikar said that the land is not enough and also government, was supposed to come up with the plant at Bainguinim within six months, whereas over three years have passed.
“Standing committee has decided to write to Government on Monday, August 24, demanding that entire 1.71 lakh sq mtrs of land be handed over back to us,” he said.
The CCP had, in 2009, acquired 1.71 lakh sq mtrs of land at Bainguinim to set up the ISWMP to handle the waste generated in the State capital. However, the proposal was caught in a legal battle, following an objection raised by the local village panchayat.
In 2017, the project was handed over to GWMC with CCP transferring the land to the waste corporation.
