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MARGAO
Even as the Fomento management had agreed to allow the Margao Municipal Council to carry on the operation to cart away the waste late through the night on Thursday, the civic body was literally caught napping as it failed to mobilise men and machinery to cart away the balance 700 tons waste rejects from the waste treatment plant.
For the last two days, the civic body had gone to the town saying that the exercise to cart away the waste from the waste treatment plant has been hit with the Concessionaire not allowing its men and machinery to work beyond 6 pm at the plant.
While the Fomento management agreed to keep open the waste treatment plant till late in the night on Thursday to facilitate the civic body to cart away the rejects following the intervention of district Collector, South Prasanna Acharya, the civic body was found wanting in mobilising the machinery to carry out the operation.
What’s interesting to note is that while district Collector, South Acharya briefed the media at 5 pm on Thursday to announce that Fomento has agreed to keep open the plant till late in the night, the Municipal administration even failed to keep the Council in the loop in the matter.
In fact, acting MMC Chairperson Tito Cardozo, was not informed of the development and he came to know of the factual position only at around 9.30 pm when Municipal officials informed that the operation could not be continued for want of logistics.
Given the situation, Tito has now told the officials to resume the operation at 7 am in the morning and make provisions for men and machinery so that the operation is carried out the entire night on Friday.
Meanwhile, sources informed that the MMC has till date carted away around 700 tons of the rejects from the waste treatment plant in the last four days. Sources in the know informed that around 700 tons of rejects is still lying in the plant and it may take minimum two days to clear the plant of the rejects.
Rains disrupted the ongoing operation on Thursday, as the wet spell made the dump slippery, forcing the civic body to dump rubble to make way for the trucks to unload the rejects on the existing dump.
