Landslide had damaged several apartments last year
Fatorda MLA Vijai Sardesai at the landslide site at Marlem-Borda to launch the retaining wall project.
Photo Credits: Santosh Mirajkar
MARGAO
The Water Resources department has launched work on the construction of a retaining wall at Marlem-Borda where a landside had damaged several apartments in Rayesh Chambers last year.
The estimated cost of the retaining wall project will cost the exchequer around Rs 1.5 crore. The work will begin immediately, with the contractor told to complete the project before the onset of monsoons.
Launching the work at the Rayesh Chambers, Borda on Sunday in the presence of Margao Municipal ward Councillor Ravindra Naik, Fatorda MLA Vijai Sardesai thanked the Water Resources department for sanctioning the retaining wall project at the site.
Sardesai said he had been constantly following up the matter with the WRD and other authorities since the retaining wall is a dire necessity at the site to prevent further landslide.
“The government had taken up the work of repairs to the apartments damaged in last year’s landside. But, the retaining wall was required at the site to prevent further damage in the event of a landslide. In the absence of the retaining wall, repair work of the apartments would be pointless if the building is again hit by a landslide”, he added.
The Fatorda MLA took the platform to remind the citizens that development works are happening in the constituency because he had been fighting with the dispensation to get things done.
Referring to the India-Pakistan conflict, Sardesai all the political parties, besides citizens are backing the Narendra Modi government to defend the country since the people are all one when it comes to the country.
He, however, expressed his surprise that the ceasefire between India and Pakistan was first announced by US President Donald Trump, saying that people of India are indeed confused about the ceasefire.
