CCP commissioner says will address problem
PANAJI
More than a year after the breakdown and repair of the bio-digester gas plant in the monsoon last year, the Corporation of the City of Panaji (CCP) is again facing trouble with the project and residents in the area around the Crematorium in St Inez where it is located have been complaining of unbearable foul odour in the last few days.
CCP Commissioner Clen Madeira said the issue will be looked into and the problem will be addressed. The plant is located in the precincts of the animal shelter in St Inez, right in the midst of multiple high-rise residential buildings including the Zarina Towers complex, which alone houses over 300 people.
The biodigester, according to residents in the area, has been emanating a foul odour consistently forcing residents in apartment flats to shut their windows and use air fresheners extensively.
Last year in the monsoon months, the CCP had shut down the bio-digester gas plant after similar complaints from local residents of foul odour. There was also leakage of waste fluids from the plant.
According to Madeira the problems with the plant were rectified and it was re-started a few weeks ago. "I will see that the matter is looked into and try to address the residents' problems," Madeira said, adding that no fresh complaints had been received by the civic body now.
Local residents, meanwhile, said that filthy fluids were flowing onto open ground around the plant last year and the entire locality had become difficult to live in with constant foul odour. Multiple housing societies in the area had then petitioned the CCP, even demanding that it be relocated to other less populated areas.
