Goemkarponn desk
VASCO: Waterlogging, landslides, and rough roads have plagued the Vasco municipal area during the time of the ‘Red Alert’ in the state. People blame the municipality for the improper pre-monsoon work.
While Goa is battling with the problems of water logging, potholes full roads, landslides etc. The state is on Red Alert. People are blaming the government machinery for its failure to implement solutions to various rainy season problems before their inception.
Maria Lourdes Carvalho (Vasco-based lawyer) said Vasco is a city planned and implemented during Portuguese times when modern scientific equipment was unavailable. The present situation is caused by a lack of interest to maintain what was inherited. A mere act of desilting of storm water drains is put up by a media event and the actual work done is pathetic resulting in chaos. A change in political guard has not yielded sufficient results but has become a repeat of excuses seen in the last 10 years of the ex-MLA. The destruction of the newly laid road carpet from st. Andrew’s Church to Pai hospital shows the level of incompetence of the PWD in certifying low-grade work as satisfactory and the shabby result is a blot on the newly elected MLA.
Xencor Polgi anti-coal activist has uploaded a video on social media showcasing the pathetic Floodlike situation which has occurred in some parts of Vasco on Friday.
Polgi said that I can surely tell that in some parts there was no pre-monsoon work done and the flooding, and water logging at Vasco Municipality, near IOC junction, is the testimony to this claim. The road from Sada to Vasco area is full of mud, plastic waste and loose debris which has come down on the main road with the rainwater.
He further said that it is a big question that, what the disaster management, municipality, and PWD are doing about this issue rather than just taking meetings and making plans. These authorities concerned should work on the ground and in sync as the state government has declared a Red alert in the state.
Carmina a local who had come to the fish market in Vasco questioned how many councillors are working on the ground in times of such distress? We elect these people with high expectations but these councillors aren’t sensitive enough to see the inconvenience people are facing and act on this matter.
Later when contacted by Ranjeet Salgaonkar, Jt. Mamlatdar Mormugao said that their disaster management team is on the field attending emergency calls. Firefighters and manual labourers are deployed wherever needed. In the morning we got a call about waterlogging at a school in Chicalim.
“We immediately sent our staff and Talathi is at the site. The clearing of water logging work is in the progress,” he said.