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 …
SGPDA Chairman Mauvin Godinho has said the planning body will put in place the comprehensive development plan for Margao city after taking the public views into account.
The ambitious exercise to make Margao clean and green got underway at the SGPDA parking lot on Sunday. Even as Chief Minister Digambar Kamat rooted for planting fruit bearing saplings as part of the tree plantation drive, the Margao Municipal Council along with NGOs Rotary Club and Nisarga has identified …
the Goa Sewerage Corporation appears a worried lot over the lukewarm response to the sewerage scheme in the Commercial Capital. More than a year after sewerage work commenced in Sirvodem-Margao with the Trenchless technology, ninety-five per cent of the work stands completed, but the Sewerage Corporation has nothing to cheer …
Chief Minister Digambar Kamat had recently said that the ugly side of Margao can be overcome by putting in place a system to manage garbage disposal. But, the authorities appear to have still not worked out any mechanism in place to tackle the burning garbage problem. The ugly situation came …
Navelim villagers want land acquisition process withdrawn MARGAO, MARCH 14 Navelim villagers on Sunday have resolved to oppose tooth and nail government
MARGAO: Solar powered illumination will soon become a reality in the Commercial Capital. Work on erection of solar panels has begun around the Margao Municipal building as part of the joint project between the Margao civic body and the Goa Energy Development Agency. As per the understanding, around 50 solar …
South Goa MP Francisco Sardinha took a dig at PWD Minister Churchill Alemao for seeking Rs 1000 crore to fund sewerage projects, saying the PWD department should first ensure that the existing sewage network laid years ago is put to optimum use. He told newsmen during his visit to the …
The Margao Municipal authorities appear taking their own time on the question of setting up of a garbage treatment plant at Sonsodo, but residents staying close to the dump yard now face the brunt of the delay in not attending to the problem promptly. While the Civic body has invited …
Solar lamps will soon become a reality in the Commercial Capital with a meeting of the Standing Committee of the Margao Municipal Council gave its nod for the Civic body to install solar powered lamps at the Municipal garden and around the Civic building. The Goa Energy Development Agency has …
Navelim villagers on Sunday demanded the intervention of the government to save the once picturesque Xelpem lake polluted by the discharge of sewage waters from neighbouring Margao city. Agitated villagers sought to know why the government has been going slow in working out a solution to the problem despite the …
Chief Minister Digambar Kamat on Wednesday assured a delegation of Citizens Welfare Committee (CWC) that he would instruct the Inspector of City survey and Land Records to conduct a fresh survey of Margao and Fatorda to put in place a land use map of the Town. The Chief Minister gave …
There seems no respite for the aam aami from piling garbage in the Commercial Capital. Notwithstanding claims by the Margao Municipal sanitary section that garbage is being lifted regularly, the ground reality speaks otherwise. Leave alone the three lanes connecting the Pick-Up Stand road to the New Market
A Composting unit over a drain may seem a little bit of a surprise for many. But, welcome to Borda in the jurisdiction of Margao Municipal Council where a composting unit is presently under construction on a water nullah. While work on the composting unit has raised many an eyebrows, …
Discharge of untreated sewage and effluents into the highly contaminated Xelpem lake and the polluted River Sal has finally come under the scanner of the South Goa Disaster Management Committee. A sub-committee comprising of the Margao Municipal Council, PWD Sewerage and the Pollution Control Board has been constituted to find …
MARGAO, MAY 5 The Margao Municipal Council will spent a whopping Rs 22.93 lakh to cover the Sonsodo dump yard and construct water drainage network at the site before the ensuing onset of monsoons. While the Civic body has tendered work of covering the dumping site with tarpaulin at a …
The Margao Municipal Council has decided to invite Expression of Interest to set up a 50 ton garbage treatment and processing plant at Sonsodo on BOOT basis. The Civic body, however, has no idea which agency will take up work on the land fill site at the dumping site, with …
The five-member committee constituted by the government monitor work on the proposed land fill site at Sonsodo has decided to seek the services of experts from the National Environmental Engineering Research Institute (NEERI), Nagpur to guide the Margao Municipal Council in executing the land fill project. Members of the Committee …
