CANACONA
Agonda Sarpanch has blamed unknown unscrupulous elements of creating garbage nuisance by dumping and burning garbage outside the Panchayat garbage shed in the village.
According to Sarpanch Badal Naikgaunkar, when panchayat engaged men had gone to deposit the garbage at the panchayat's garbage site situated at the isolated location near Tourem-moll, burning garbage was noticed outside the Panchayat garbage shed.
As the fire was threatening the safety of garbage shed constructed by the panchayat, the fire was finally brought under control by dousing the burning garbage.
Naikgaunkar warned strict action against unscrupulous elements for risking the safety of newly built garbage shed, where a bailing machine is also being used to treat the plastic waste.
Naikgaunkar further informed a huge amount of treated as well as untreated plastics is lying inside garbage shed, as there is some delay in transportation of the treated wastes.
Agonda Panchayat constructed the shed somewhere in December last under the 14th Finance Commission Grants @ cost of Rs 24 Lakhs, and operations of the same had begun since February this year.
Goa Waste Management Corporation has provided a bailing machine, incinerator, besides another machinery to segregate and treat the dry waste and had also provided a rickshaw to the panchayat to collect the garbage. GWMC is taking away the treated garbage.
As there was no collection for the last few months, large amount of treated garbage is lying inside the shed while fresh garbage collection has to be dumped just outside the shed.
'We in Agonda have door-to-door collection on regular basis, but still some people are trying to make a mess of garbage in the village. We cannot understand why and who had dumped the garbage outside and closeby to the shed and put it on fire. We warn such elements of strict action and panchayat will not hesitate to hand over these unscrupulous elements to the police to initiate criminal action," warned Naikgaunkar.
