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MARGAO
The South Goa Planning and Development Authority (SGPDA) has resumed water supply to the retail fish market after installing a new water pump on Wednesday evening.
In the meantime, fish vendors called on the new PDA Chairman, MLA Wilfred D’Sa with a host of demands, including the long-pending demand to stop the retail sale of fish in the wholesale fish market.
The PDA chairman gave the fish vendors a patient hearing, assuring the vendors that he would study the matter before taking action.
D’Sa informed that the PDA has procured a new water pump costing Rs 27,000 to replace the old pump which had affected water pumping to the retail fish market during the last five days. He said supply of tap water to the fish market, which was affected during the last five days, was restored on Thursday with the installation of the new pump.
The SGPDA chairman D’Sa said the Authority has decided to take up work of cleanliness in the market departmentally for the moment, before floating quotations inviting private
agencies to carry out the work of sopo collection and cleanliness.
Meanwhile, the fish vendors called on the new PDA chairman on Thursday noon with a host of demands, with a plea to D’Sa to resolve all outstanding issues faced by the retail fish vendors.
The retail fish vendors had been demanding that the PDA crack a whip against the illegal retail fish activity in the wholesale fish market, on the ground that their business has been hit by the retail fish business in the wholesale fish market.
