MARGAO
The dust kicked up during the campaign for the May 7 Lok Sabha polls is gradually settling down, but there seemed no solution yet for the disposal of waste generated in the SGPDA retail market.
In fact, Thursday saw mounds of thermocol and mixed waste all around the market complex run by the South Goa Planning and Development Authority (SGPDA), with the market resembling an eyesore.
This isn’t the first time that thermocol and other waste have piled up in the PDA retail market complex, but a solution seemed to have eluded the planning authority and the Margao Municipal Council.
Take note, the SGPDA and the Margao Municipality had initiated a drive for the collection of thermocol waste in the PDA retail market when the PDA wholesale fish market had come under the scanner of the High Court last year.
While the SGPDA and the MMC had put a mechanism in place to take care of the thermocol and other waste generated in and around the wholesale fish market, disposal of the thermocol and other dry waste in the PDA retail market is still a far cry.
A visit to the PDA retail market has revealed that tons of thermocol waste has piled up all around the market complex. Mixed waste dumped along the periphery of the market has spilled into the neighbouring low-lying fields.
Visitors have slammed the PDA and the MMC for lack of coordination in handling the waste and exposing the people to health hazard for no fault of theirs.
Vendors doing business in the market have also raised the question of the failure by the authorities in the timely lifting of the waste generated in the PDA retail market complex.
Couple of months back, the SGPDA headed by Vasco MLA Krishna Daji Salkar had cleaned up the internal storm water drains ahead of the monsoons. A solution to the burning waste problem plaguing the market has eluded the authorities till date.
