VASCO
Mormugao Municipal Council (MMC) Chairperson Leo Rodrigues has said the council will soon also get vehicles, JCB and night soil tankers under the 15th Finance Commission.
He was addressing a gathering after Jindal South West (JSW) offered around 100 waste bins to the MMC under its CSR project in the presence of Rodrigues, Vasco MLA Krishna Salkar and other Municipal councillors.
“We thank the JSW for giving us the dustbins and they will give us more dust bins. We appeal to people to give us segregated garbage across all 25 wards to help tackle garbage menace.”
“The council will get a JCB Poclain Machine, night soil tankers and other vehicles under the 15th Finance Commission to tackle the garbage menace. We will also get a new hearse van as well and things will improve at the municipal level,” said Rodrigues.
MMC Vice Chairperson Amay Chopdekar said the garbage bins would be very useful to tackle the garbage issue.
“We will use these dustbins for the day to day garbage collection since we faced tremendous shortage of bins, some of which were damaged while some had no wheels.”
“We have also seen that many temples are celebrating the Vardhapan Diwas where food is served and we will also place these bins at such times outside the temples or places where functions are held so that food waste is collected systematically,” said Chopdekar.
Vasco MLA Krishna Salkar said the garbage bins were provided as a part of Swaccha Bharat Abhiyan.
“Many people do not offer garbage to the door-to-door collector but instead dump it by the roadsides. People must offer garbage in a segregated manner and support the door-to-door garbage collection,” said Salkar.
