MARGAO
It’s now official. The PWD, National Highway has submitted before the High Court that the government has accepted the recommendations made by the National Green Tribunal (NGT) constituted 10-member panel to build the western bypass on stilts admeasuring 980 meters between Seraulim and Mungul.
Sources said the proposal to build the bypass on stilts up to a distance of 980 meters has found favour with the authorities, who are believed to have already sent a proposal to the Union Ministry of Surface Transport to take care of the funding of the bypass on stilts.
PWD sources pointed out that the department submitted the report of the 10-member NGT-constituted panel before the High Court, which had recommended construction of the 980 meters of the balance stretch of the western bypass on stilts.
This is perhaps the first time that the PWD has made the submission in the High Court on the acceptance of the NGT-constituted panel’s recommendation on the construction of the 980 meter stretch of the bypass on stilts.
Petitioner before the NGT, Benaulim resident Royla Fernandes welcomed the development, saying it would go a long way in addressing the issues of destruction of the ecology on the flood plains of river Sal.
She, however, pointed out that the villagers of Benaulim will continue their just struggle to get the remaining portion of the bypass on stilts.
