PANAJI
A new, solid waste management (SWM) plant started inside the Verna Industrial Estate, promises to mitigate the waste management challenges of the units and factories operating inside Goa’s largest industrial estate. This follows a demand made by the Verna Industries Association (VIA) to the Goa Industrial Development Corporation (GIDC).
According to media release issued on the occasion of VIA’s annual general meeting (AGM) held in the city on Friday, Kalpak Arware, President, VIA said that the SWM initiative would be run by Yimby for a period of 10 years.
According to Ramakrishnan Kannan, general secretary, Verna Industries Association (VIA), the SWM plant which began operations in August this year, had started collecting dry waste from 43 units inside Verna industrial estate to begin with. He was confident that the facility would cover more than 500 units across Verna and Sancoale industrial estates very soon. “Wet waste collection will start in about one month’s time.”
Highlighting other key initiatives undertaken by VIA in the year 2025-26, Arware said VIA had provided jobs to over 1,000 local youth who were fresh graduates through job fairs held at Verna, Chicalim and Curtorim. Also, several units inside the Verna industrial estate had provided employment to self-help group women from villages around Verna.
Nine students who topped their schools in the SSC examination of March 2026 from schools situated in villages surrounding Verna were felicitated with merit certificates and individual scholarships of Rs 5,000 each sponsored by VIA and its members Lupin and Novacare respectively after the VIA annual general meeting.
