Goemkarponn desk
PANAJI: Waste Management Minister Babush Monserrate today informed that the tender for the Solid Waste Management Plant at Baiguinum would come out in the next two months.
“This plant is the need of the hour, and work is going on in that direction; tender for the waste management plant will be out in the coming two months,” said Monserrate.
He further said that they have the necessary permissions pertaining to the plant, and there is no question of the local MLA’s opposition.
“We have all the clearances from the Court; we will go ahead with the plant,” he added.
Monserrate said that the case is currently on in the Supreme Court, but there is no stay on the project, and we will continue with the process.
“We have legal clearances, and we are going ahead with the much-needed project at Baiguinum,” the minister said.
The Department of Science and Technology and Waste Management had invited objections from the public to the proposed Solid Waste Treatment Plant at Bainguinim, Old Goa.
The government had already acquired 1.71 lakh square metres of land at Bainguinim to set up a state-of-the-art garbage treatment plant. A compound wall has also been erected there.
The decision to set up to garbage treatment plant at Bainguinim had received stiff opposition from the villagers of Bainguinim and Old Goa. They had urged the government to scrap the proposal and to give the land to the Old Goa village panchayat for a recreational project.
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