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Tackle hawker menace in Margao


These days one can't visit Margao city without being accosted aggressively by hawkers and beggars from outside the State. They bang on your car windows most violently to force you to buy something from them. 

Women try to use the sympathy card by asking you money for milk for their babies. A lot of them have criminal intent. Drunkards infest the boundary wall of the Municipal Gardens in the evenings. 

The city fathers and law enforcement agencies seem totally oblivious to these elements despoiling our Goa. 

It is time the police deals with this menace with an iron hand. 


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Ban scrapyards near residential areas

ADELMO FERNANDES, Vasco
Published Dec 12, 2022, 12:09 AM IST
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A scrapyard located at Verna Industrial Estate reportedly caught fire recently destroying a lot of items in the yard. The fire was so huge that a thick smoke could be seen from afar. It is learnt that the incident began when grass in the vicinity caught fire and the flames spread to the scrapyard which had a huge quantity of plastic and wooden items. It must be said that there have been several instances in the past when scrapyards have been gutted in fire…

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