MARGAO: Not only Madgaunkars but even the pedestrians passing by extended their hand in planting 5029 Golden Duranta plants along the 800 mars stretch of the road divider from Colva junction to Ravindra Bhavan junction on Sunday in just 22 minutes. The call to come out generously to plant the …
But smoke billowing out from steel units is still a concern; Post-monsoon GSPCB to carry out more checks This might raise many an eyebrow amongst those hit by pollution in and around the Cuncolim Industrial estate. Ambient air quality checks carried out by the Goa State Pollution Control Board (GSPCB) …
MARGAO: In a decision that will have a bearing on the fate of the illegal structures on Comunidade land atop the Talzanzor hillock, Margao, the Margao Communidade on Sunday firmly rejected any proposal from the government or individuals for regularisation of the 112 structures atop the hillock. The Margao Comunidade …
MARGAO: The work of draining out water from contaminated drinking water wells in the Sirvodem ward of Margao Municipal Council commenced on Friday, even as the Margao Urban Health centre despatched the water samples from the wells for testing. The work of pumping out the contaminated water from wells that …
MARGAO: The Margao Municipal Council has no dedicated site for disposing non-conforming waste, including thermocol waste generated in the city. While Fomento Green, which is manning the Sonsodo dump yard, has refused to accept non-conforming waste, the civic body has till date no designated site for dumping of such waste. …
District Collector N D Agrawal along with a Margao Municipal team descended at the Sirvodem ward of the city following complaints of contamination of drinking water wells in the locality. After the inspection, the district collector said he suspects the contamination of one well, but hastened to add that the …
MARGAO: Goa Legislative Assembly Speaker Rajendra Arlekar and Environment Minister Alina Saldanha on Sunday batted for cycling as a means to control air pollution and protect the environment. Arlekar went a step further to say that the government of the day will be compelled to make a lane for bicycles, …
Ray of hope for farmers as CM does a rethink MARGAO: There’s finally a ray of hope that farmers cultivating the fields in and around the once picturesque Salpem lake on the Margao-Navelim border will get their land back – more than three years after former PWD Minister Churchill Alemao …
Promising corrective action vis-à-vis pollution in the Cuncolim Industrial Estate, Environment Minister, Alina Saldanha has said she would personally visit the Estate next week to take stock of the situation on the pollution front. Speaking to newsmen at Chinchinim on the sidelines of the awareness program on Garbage management, Saldanha …
Wet waste disposed off in plastic bags in dust bins has not only thrown up a problem for the waste handlers at Sonsodo, but has kicked up a row of sorts over the functioning of the waste treatment plant. If foul odour continues to emanate from Sonsodo along with high …
In an unprecedented drive against plastic waste disposal at Chinchinim village, local citizens, youth, clubs, maritime institutions and the local panchayat body joined hands to clear the village roadsides of the tons of plastic waste on Sunday. The entire road from Assolna bridge to Orlim bridge and right up to …
MARGAO: The Margao Municipal Council on Tuesday resolved to outsource door-to-door waste collection in the city, even as the sanitary and the technical sections came under fire from the city fathers for its inefficiency and its failure to collect fees from hotels and restaurants since the last two years. At …
The Parrikar government might find itself in a tight corner over the utilization of land admeasuring 1.15 lakh sq mts in Davorlim acquired by the previous government with local villagers demanding that the same be utilized for projects beneficial to locals. This became evident on Sunday when the Davorlim gram …
MARGAO: Unveiling its plan of action to tackle sanitation head on in the State, the government will construct around 90,000 toilets across Goa by 2014 as part of the Nirmal Bharat Abhiyan scheme, even as PWD Minister, Sudin Dhavlikar unveiled a scheme to build free soakpits for households to take …
PANJIM: The tourism high powered monitoring committee, under the chairmanship of Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar has given its nod to a Panjim cruise jetty, Merces amphitheatre and Margao mini exhibition-convention centre and other tourism and infrastructure projects totalling Rs 50 crore, with a two year completion target. The committee set-up …
MARGAO: The garbage menace facing Navelim village threatens to spill over to neighbouring Margao. An agitated Navelim MLA and Fisheries Minister, Avertano Furtado on Thursday threatened to stop Margao sewage from flowing into the Sewerage treatment plant located at Sirvodem-Navelim if the Margao Civic body refuses to accept waste from …
MARGAO: Fomento Green has raised two bills amounting to Rs 1.30 crore each towards setting up the Rs 7.31 crore waste treatment plant at Sonsodo, but the Margao Civic body is yet to put in place a consultant to clear the bills or certify that the company has installed the …
MARGAO: With the government setting 2014 as the deadline to complete Margao’s long delayed sewerage project, the Goa Sewerage Development Corporation has taken up work on the Malbhat and Aquem area of the city, besides Rumdamol and Davorlim on the city outskirts, but officials say the progress of work would …
MARGAO: After its previous attempt coming a cropper for want of awareness and logistical support, the Margao Municipal Council has decided to give yet another try to make the commercial capital plastic free. Margao Municipal Council Chairperson Arthur D’Silva said the civic body would give around a month’s time to …
Hospicio bio-medical waste management once again came under scanner after waste stacked in plastic bags was found dumped within the hospital premises on Sunday. The hospital management has been resorting to the deep burial method to dispose of the bio-medical waste generated in this government district hospital. However, waste including …
Margao Municipal Council’s solid waste management plant finally stands commissioned at Sonsodo. Open dumping of waste is now a thing of the past. But, the civic body has a long way to go in tackling tons of waste generated in the commercial capital, reports Guilherme Almeida After a bitter experience …
