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 …
Chairman of the Goa Pollution Control Board, Dr L U Joshi has said it has become a fashion to point fingers at the Board for pollution when implementing agencies created under various Legislations are responsible to curb the same.
Margao Municipal Council much-hyped awareness drive on waste segregation at source in association with TERI on Monday turned out a damp squib, with the program evoking lukewarm response from the stake holders, including City Fathers. Even local MLA and Chief Minister, Digambar Kamat, who was scheduled to launch the intensive …
Come December 4 and the Margao Municipal Council will kick off an intensive campaign across the Commercial Capital to create awareness amongst the citizens on waste segregation and door-to-door garbage collection. The campaign is intended to bring about awareness on waste segregation as the civic body will start door-to-door garbage …
Composting units became a reality in the Commercial Capital on Tuesday as per the orders of the High Court mandating the Civic bodies to set up these units to tackle garbage problem. A total of three composting units were commissioned in the city at the hands of Chief Minister, Digambar …
In an unprecedented action, Goa Pollution Control Board on Friday excavated a ring road under construction to find out whether the contractor has used garbage and waste for land filling. And, a Goa Pollution Control Board official Joglekar clearly stated that the operation has found prima facie case in the …
By Guilherme Almeida Collecting garbage on a door-to-door basis in the Commercial Capital is likely to be a costly affair for the cash-starved Margao Municipal Council. As if the nightmares over Sonsodo weren't enough, the Civic body may have to pool all their resources in view of recent high court …
Inspection of a mega housing project in Grande-Vanelilm in Colva has revealed that a well shown on the survey plan has ceased to exist on the ground, while storm water drain leading to a water pond stands filled up with mud. What's more, the inspection report read out by Panchayat …
Office of the Executive Engineer, Works Division XXI (PHE), PWD, Fatorda has invited applications from the residents of Vasco at the localities wherever sewerage network is provided to avail the facility to get connected to the sewerage system under the "Subsidized Sewerage Connection Scheme'. Under the scheme the sewer connection …
The Citizens Welfare Committee has won the first round of battle against the South Goa Planning and Development Authority when the PDA handed over copy of the Outline Development Plan (ODP) for Margao to the activists. The plan, however, cost the CWC around Rs 1500
If the avowed objective of the proposal to cap the Sonsodo garbage dumpyard with tarpaulin was to arrest seepage of rain water into the waste, tonnes of waste continues to be exposed to rains at the site till date. For, the Margao Civic body is still in the process of …
