MAPUSA
Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar assured the chairperson and the councillors of Mapusa Municipal Council (MMC) that work on the new bus stand would be taken up soon.
He also assured to look into the matter of the down town planning scheme for Mapusa.
MMC Chairperson Ryan Braganza along with 12 councillors was part of the entourage to welcome the chief minister at the Secretariat on Tuesday.
“We met the chief minister as part of a courtesy call. He informed us that the Mapusa bus-stand file is with the transport department, which will soon be moved to the Goa State Infrastructure Development Corporation (GSIDC),” Braganza said.
It may be recalled Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar had recently reviewed the ongoing works of GSIDC and approved projects of over Rs 600 crore. Proposals for bus stands at six different locations in the State, including Mapusa, Margao, Panaji, Bicholim, Curchorem and Sakhalim, were approved.
Besides Braganza, former chairpersons and senior councillors, Sudhir Kandolkar and Sandip Falari, councillors Martin Carrasco, Sushant Harmalkar, Sanjay Mishal, Tushar Tople, Deepti Lanjekar, Swapnil Shirodkar, Rajsingh Rane and Kavita Arlekar were present at the secretariat to welcome the CM. Ex-chairperson and senior councillor Rohan Kavlekar, Vice-Chairperson, Marlene D’Souza, councillors Vibha Salgaonkar, Franky Carvalho and Joshua D’Souza were not present.
