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PANAJI: Sarpanchas and panchayat members were urged by Panchayats Minister Mauvin Godinho to take a more active approach to resolving the state’s garbage crisis by leaving their offices and interacting with local communities.
Godinho who is also the MLA of Dabolim Constituency informed how they had tried to make the villages such as Chicalim, Bogmalo in the constituency clean and green by having a waste treatment plant- that provided water to the nearby park, having Transfer station for garbage, etc among other things to counter the menace of garbage and its disposal.
Godinho called upon Block Development Officers (BDOs) to show themselves as good administrators by giving good leadership to sarpanchs and panchayats to tackle garbage menace. “People will remember you for that,” he told the gathering of Government officials, BDOs, and members of the student community.
The Minister went on to add, “It’s also proven that a clean environment influences how we think. So if the environment is clean, there will be no room for negative and bad thoughts.”
Deputy Speaker, Goa Legislative Assembly and MLA of Mapusa Constituency, Joshua De Souza, while speaking on the occasion said that tackling garbage issue in Goa should be done every day and it should be a sustained movement and then only will we see Goa emerge as a clean destination.
De Souza further said that garbage management is a scientific process. Adding further he spoke of how wealth from waste concept is trending all over the world and how people should have the ability to capitalize on it.
“Some organizations are taking active steps to see Goa doesn’t lag behind in this,” he said adding, “It takes efforts to make Goa clean and all should behave responsibly and collectively and pledge to make Goa waste free.”
