PANAJI
The Bombay High Court at Goa has directed that notices be issued to Hindustan Waste Treatment Pvt Ltd, the contractor engaged to carry out remediation of the legacy waste at Sonsodo, over the slow pace of work at the site.
Hearing a petition filed by the Citizens for Sonsodo, the High Court noted that “the work has not progressed at any satisfactory rate.”
“The records now placed before us indicate that from 16.11.2021 the work has not progressed at any satisfactory rate. Even as on 01.03.2022, the quantity of the remediated waste remains at 1,01,208 cubic metres (the same as it was in January 2021),” the High Court noted.
“Having regard to the above circumstances, we think that it would be in the public interest if the contractor M/s. Hindustan Waste Treatment Pvt. Ltd. files an affidavit before us explaining its position and also giving us a proper timeline within which this work, which is now long overdue, will be completed. Accordingly, we issue notice to the Contractor M/s. Hindustan Waste Treatment Pvt Ltd returnable on 27.04.2022,” the division bench of Justices M S Sonak and R N Laddha, said.
