PANAJI: The State Government has notified a scheme for providing as much as ₹50-crore ‘grant-in-aid' to the Goa Waste Management Corporation (GWMC) to provide financial support to it to ensure compliance of all the solid waste management rules.
Among the list of tasks that the GWMC is supposed to use the money for are to carry out
awareness programmes, competitions, campaigns, seminars, workshops, publications, advertisements, signage, exhibitions, conferences, displays, waste to wealth and waste to art products and installations, infrastructure facilities for waste collection and treatment including transportation of all types of Solid Waste.
According to the notification, the scheme also will provide financial assistance for hiring consultants, third party or independent auditors, staff on job basis, manpower, premises and purchase of land for waste management.
Based on certain conditions, ₹50-crore shall be provided to the Goa Waste Management Corporation annually in four equal installments, subject to budgetary provision, based on the estimate approved by the Government in the Budget Estimate during that financial year for the scheme and will be sanctioned as per the terms and conditions laid by the Government beginning from the financial year 2017-18.
The entire amount of the grants approved within the same financial year, should be utilized before the month of March of the subsequent year of grant and only for the purpose for which it is sanctioned. Any portion of the grant which is not ultimately required for the purpose for which it is sanctioned will be refunded to the Government Treasury or adjusted in the next year's grants.
Earlier in June this year the government sanctioned grant-in-aid of ₹5-crore for the initial non-recurring cost of establishment of the Goa Waste Management Corporation for supporting, consolidation and assisting in the activities being carried out and implemented by the Monitoring-cum-Working Committee.
The Goa Waste Management Corporation was set up through an Act of the Goa Legislative Assembly particularly handle the affairs of the the Calangute waste treatment plant as well as to oversee the construction of another two similar garbage treatment plants in Goa -- one at Curchorem and another at Bainguinim for central Goa.
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SCHEME NOTIFIED
Tasks that the GWMC is supposed to use the money for ...
* Carrying out awareness programmes, competitions, campaigns, seminars, workshops, publications, advertisements
* Signage, exhibitions, conferences, displays, waste to wealth and waste to art products and installations
* Infrastructure facilities for waste collection and treatment including transportation of all types of solid waste
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TERMS AND CONDITIONS
* Rs 50-crore shall be provided to the Goa Waste Management Corporation annually in four equal installments
* Subject to budgetary provision, based on the estimate approved by the Government in the Budget Estimate during that financial year
* The aid will be sanctioned as per the terms and conditions laid by the Government beginning from the financial year 2017-18
