MARGAO
Director General of Police (DGP) Mukesh Kumar Meena on Friday descended at Raia-Sonsodo to take a look at the land acquired by the Police Department for the Maina-Curtorim police station, presently functioning from the district police headquarters at Margao.
The DGP took stock of the situation along with the district police top brass, including SP, South Pankaj Kumar Singh, Margao Sub-Divisional Police Officer, DySP Harish Madkaikar, Maina-Curtorim police in-charge, PI Shivram Vaingankar. “I have come to inspect the land acquired for the Maina-Curtorim police station as it will help in the planning of the new building for the police station,” the DGP told The Goan.
Sources at the district police headquarters said while it will take time for the new building to come up on the acquired land at Sonsodo, the Police Department is in the process of shifting the Maina-Curtorim police station from Margao to a government school building premises at Raia.
Though the DGP did not visit the school building, the Maina-Curtorim police station is proposed to be shifted as a stop-gap arrangement before the new building takes shape on the acquired land on the Raia side of Sonsodo, the Police Department is apparently gearing up to shift the police station from Margao to the school building at Raia.
Sub-Divisional Police Officer, Margao, DySP Harish Madkaikar said the Police Department has in principle agreed to shift the Maina-Curtoirm police station to the school building at Raia. He, however, hastened to add that it may take some time for the shifting to take place as the school building may need renovation and installation of other basic amenities.
The government had acquired land admeasuring around 10,000 square meters on the Raia side of Sonsodo to house the Maina-Curtorim police station over a decade ago, but the independent police station premise did not take concrete shape all these years because of funds and other logistic issues, leaving the department with no other option than to function from the South Goa district headquarters.
