City fathers say they were flooded with complains from citizens in their respective wards
MARGAO
The Margao Municipal Council has been found struggling to dispose of the tonnes of wet waste generated in the city at the Sonsodo plant, leaving it with no options but to stack the waste in garbage trucks for hours for want of a disposal facility.
A couple of trucks laden with garbage were found parked at the municipal old garage, awaiting a signal from the civic body to transport the waste to the Sonsodo plant.
Though the trucks had collected the waste from various points across the city, the same could not be unloaded at Sonsodo with no space left at the entrance of the plant for the garbage trucks to move inside.
The situation is getting worse, with waste from many points remaining uncollected in the commercial capital.
The present crisis is not new as the civic body has been struggling to run the Sonsodo plant ever since Fomento quit the site after handing over the plant and machinery to the MMC in February.
Since then, the MMC had been literally grappling to handle the situation. The civic body has been unable to repair and maintain the plant and machinery, including the heavy-duty cranes.
What further aggravated the situation for the civic body is that there are different maintenance contractors for different types of machinery.
Sources in the civic body further said the maintenance agencies are based outside the state, adding that things come to a halt whenever any machinery fails.
Wednesday saw the sanitary inspector Viraj Arabekar coordinating with the maintenance agencies to repair the grab as well as the heavy machinery required to push the waste inside the plant.
Sources in the civic body in private say the situation, if at all overcome by the council, will be of temporary nature, as a host of issues relating to maintenance of the existing machinery are awaiting solution.
City fathers told The Goan that waste remained uncollected from their areas and as a result they were flooded with complains from citizens.
Sources in the know told The Goan that late evening the truck drivers were told to transport the waste stacked in the vehicles to Sonsodo early Thursday morning.
