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MARGAO
Grappling with the issue of outside waste finding its way into the municipal limits, the Margao Municipal Council will finally unveil the garbage sentinel scheme on Wednesday with the objective of reigning in the miscreants disposing off their waste at the black spots and transfer stations.
The scheme which was approved by the council at the last meeting, envisages empowering citizens to video-record people dumping waste at unauthorised places in the city. While the MMC intends to punish the guilty with a fine of Rs 5000, a reward awaits the sentinels helping the civic body to reign in the violators.
The garbage sentinel was given a thought by the civic body with tonnes of waste, around 14 tonnes to be precise, finding its way into the commercial capital every day. Around 17 spots, including the black spots and transfer stations, receive waste from outside the city, throwing the MMC’s plan to tackle the waste haywire.
In fact, ever since Fomento has asked the civic body to supply only segregated waste to the Sonsodo waste treatment plant, the MMC has had to literally grapple with the mixed waste dumped at the black spots and the transfer stations, leaving the civic body with hardly any option other than to dispose off the unsegregated waste at the existing Sonsodo dump yard.
