CANACONA
Taking their three-year-long 'Mission for Progressive Canacona' campaign to the Centre, GPCC General Secretary Janardhan Bhandari submitted a charter of 15 demands to Union Minister for Road Transport & Highway Nitin Gadkari seeking to improve the Margao-Polem highway.
Bhandari submitted a memorandum to Gadkari, other leaders and authorities, bringing to their notice the poor condition of the NH66 road between Polem and Margao.“Since the last three years, we are striving to get the Margao-Polem stretch of NH66 repaired and hotmixed for betterment of Canaconkars, under the 'Mission Progressive Canacona,” Bhandari told The Goan.
Bhandari said the memorandum has listed a demand to immediately hotmix the old and new NH66, installation of speed breakers, implementation of a speed limit, displaying traffic signages, repair of roadside shoulders, clearing trees on highways posing threat to traffic and immediate installation of weighing machines to control evasion of taxes and save government revenue.
Other demands include the availability of a crane to clear vehicles from accident spots, checking the fitness of old bridges, provision of a concrete drainage system, functioning of street lights from Margao to Polem, setting up a parking hub for heavy vehicles, blacklisting of erring PWD contractors and action on PWD engineers for misuse of power.
Bhandari has appealed to all authorities to take into consideration the plight of Canaconkars and resolve their problems related to the Margao-Polem highway at the earliest.
The memorandum has also been submitted to Chief Minister Pramod Sawant, PWD minister, Opposition Leader, Canacona MLA, government officials and other officials from the union ministry of Road Transport & Highways and National Highways Authority of Goa.
