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Purument feast fair waste not picked in last 3 days

MARGAO: It’s now three days since curtains came down on the week-long Purumentachem feast fair on the SGPDA grounds. Sadly, the tonnes of plastic waste that has accumulated on the PDA ground is awaiting clearance by the civic body.   

While MMC workers are yet to step in on the SGPDA ground to clear the plastic waste in the last three days, the waste has turned into an eyesore for the thousands of visitors to the PDA market and the Osia Commercial Complex.   

Civic officials contended that the plastic waste could not be lifted since the entire gang of workers were engaged and preoccupied with the waste problem staring at the city since the last three days.   


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Minor fire at Sonsodo again

The Goan Network
Published Jun 20, 2019, 3:32 AM IST
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MARGAO: Even as the MMC workers were engaged in carting away the waste rejects from the waste treatment plan to the existing dump, fire came to haunt the authorities on Wednesday evening once again.   Margao fire brigade rushed to Sonsodo at 5.30 pm on Wednesday following a call that fire has resurfaced on the dump. A team of fire-fighting team headed by leading fireman Sanjay Desai immediately doused the fire by spraying water and requested the MMC engineers to…

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