MARGAO
A team of the Goa State Pollution Control Board (GSPCB) has visited the Cutbona fishing jetty complex to find out whether the toilets at the jetty are equipped with proper disposal facility.
The Pollution Control Board’s presence at the jetty comes after Environment Minister Aleixo Sequeira instructed senior board official Sanjeev Joglekar to inspect the jetty on Thursday evening.
Sanjeev Joglekar was told by the Minister to find out whether the toilets at the jetty have the sewage treatment plants to treat the sewage before the same is released in the river.
Call for white paper on decade of inaction
GOACAN has called for a white paper on the decade of inaction by the Directorate of Fisheries at the Cutbona fishing jetty.
The NGO has welcomed the Goa government action on Cutbona jetty with the visit of the Chief Minister Pramod Sawant and the removal of Dr Shamila Monteiro as the Director of Fisheries.
GOACAN has also decided to raise the issue of the consumer right to safety of the workers at the Cutbona jetty under the Consumer Protection 2019 at the forthcoming meeting of the South Goa District Consumer Protection Council to be chaired by Asvin Chandru, Collector of South Goa.
GOACAN has also written to Arun Panchwadkar, Controller, Legal Metrology to inspect the kiosks and other retailers and wholesalers at the Cutbona jetty supplying food items, packaged drinking water, milk, cooking oil, fruit juices and even alcohol for violations of the Packaged Commodities Rules and Weights & Measures as the case may be.
