Goemkarponn desk
MARGAO: Shadow Council appealed to the High Court to strictly monitor the Bio Remediation work at Sonsodo, as the concerned authorities and the Contractor are adopting crude methods of disposing of the legacy waste in low-lying areas without taking measures to prevent the pollution of the ground water table.
“It is hardly 3 months since the Goa Waste Management Corporation, through its blue-eyed Contractor, the Hindustan Waste Treatment Pvt. Ltd cleared 14380 cubic meters of accumulated waste from the Sonsodo plant. The same place is now once again ready with a similar quantity of accumulated waste, waiting to be feasted upon by the gullible people in authority,” lamented Savio Coutinho.
Since Fomento handed over the plant to the MMC in February 2020, this will be the 3rd time accumulated waste from inside the plant will be cleared by spending additional funds from the public exchequer.
In June 2020, an amount of Rs 85 lakhs was paid to the Hindustan Waste Treatment Pvt. Ltd for clearing the accumulated waste so as to facilitate the dumping of fresh daily waste. Around the same time, the Margao Municipal Council commenced their much hyped door-to-door segregated waste collection system by engaging 2 agencies. Incidentally, one of the agencies Bapu Environmental Social Service Organization, was appointed directly without following any Codal formalities.
The second operation of clearing the accumulated waste from inside the plant just got executed around 2 months back, at a very huge cost of 3.37 crores, Coutinho informed; And now, very soon, another few crores will go towards the clearing of the waste from inside the plant, for the third time, Coutinho stated.
What is beyond one’s understanding is that when the Council has been boasting about collecting segregated waste through 2 of their favourite agencies; and supposedly delivering segregated wet waste to the Sonsodo plant, then why does this segregated wet waste need Bio Remediation at such huge additional costs? Coutinho questions further.
