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PWD Minister Ramkrishna Sudin Dhavalikar sought to assure those protesting against an upcoming sewage treatment plant that similar such plants have been set up and are functioning in several thickly populated areas including Calangute, Panjim and other locations.
“The technology we have used for these plants is one of the best in the world. The C-tech plants are such that if you just run the water through your regular home Reverse Osmosis water purifier it can even be consumed,” Dhavalikar said.
Taking up the matter during zero hour, Ponda MLA Ravi Naik said that with the upcoming plant being located in a thickly populated area there was fear and anxiety in the minds of the people of Curti and Housing Board in Ponda.
“The sewage treatment plant should be in a non-residential area. When the plant is located in a thickly populated locality, people fear that any leakage will lead to seepage into the nullah where the people use water for daily use and people have raised this objection in the gram sabha,” Naik had said.
Earlier, seeking to allay the fears of the people of San André constituency who fear that their demand for one or two cattle underpasses will be ignored by the construction company building the elevated corridors from Bambolim to Verna, Dhavalikar said that he would call a meeting within the next two months to ensure that the people are not troubled.
“The work has not begun yet. Over the next two months we will ensure that there is a meeting called to discuss the issue,” Dhavalikar said.
Local MLA Francisco Silveira had cited the possible problems that could be faced if people from Agaçaim were not able to move their cattle from one side of the highway to the other once the highway is up and running.
“Even today people are dying on the road when trying to cross it to go to the fields,” Silveira said.
