MARGAO
The Shadow Council for Margao has feared that the costs involved towards providing a firm base for the parking lot project at the SGPDA ground under the MPLAD scheme may be double that the original project cost.
A day after The Goan highlighted how the SGPDA parking lot project is lying in limbo since the PWD officials are wary over the presence of thousands of tonnes of plastic and dry waste underneath the ground, SCM convenor Savio Coutinho said, “We see only two possibilities, either excavate the underlying waste and shift it elsewhere, or provide a very costly Reinforced Cement Concrete raft foundation.”
On a sarcastic note, Coutinho said “the third option which could possibly attract this government and our leaders is the bio remediation of the 20-year-old waste at SGPDA ground.”
The SCM convenor directed his tirade against the Margao MLA Digambar Kamat saying the root cause for the unnecessary and perennial expenditures at the SGPDA parking lot was the lack of foresight on the part of Margao MLA representing the city for last 28 years.
Referring to the delay in the execution of the works for the parking lot at the SGPDA grounds, Coutinho recalled that hundreds of trucks of mixed waste from Sonsodo was ruthlessly dumped at the SGPDA ground in a very unscientific manner, at the behest of Margao MLA in the early 2000’s. “We as opposition councillors then, along with local residents objected to the dumping of waste. However, the government and the Margao MLA continued dumping the plastic ridden waste, which effects are experienced now,” he added.
He said the Margao MLA was responsible for the situation at the time when Sonsodo waste was effectively treated by the Komex plant set up in the year 1999-2000, the new government formed by defections then, stalled the company from the treatment of waste at Sonsodo, stating that Komex company was extracting a goldmine,” Coutinho recalled.
