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Willy backs garbage plants at Balli, Colvale
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Nationalist Congress Party’s (NCP) Goa unit chief, Dr Wilfred de Souza
today said he was of the firm opinion that the garbage treatment plants
proposed by the House Committee at Balli and Colvale would serve the
interest of the State.
Dr de Souza accused the Tivim MLA, Sadanand Shet Tanavade, of
spreading canards and misguiding the people of Colvale-Camurlim
that he (Dr de Souza) was responsible for finalising the location of
the plant at Colvale-Camurlim.
Dr de Souza said the people of Colvale were being mis-led by Mr Tanavade
perhaps to score petty political points, little realising that he was in fact
committing a breach of privilege of the Goa Legislative Assembly.
While acknowledging that the idea of having these treatment plants was
initiated by him through a private members resolution in February last,
Dr de Souza said: “What I had suggested was that land for the project
be acquired in Bainguinim, which had been earmarked for the purpose in
1994,”
Dr de Souza said, adding that the House instead appointed a committee
under the chairmanship of Urban Development Minister, Digamber Kamat
which studied the whole problem and produced a report.Dr de Souza said
this committee had in its report given all the recommendations including
the sites — Colvale-Camurlim and Balli — for the scientific, solid-waste
treatment plants in North and South Goa. “The plants have to be located
in some constituency or the other,” Dr de Souza said, adding that Mr Kamat
himself had made an impassionate appeal to all the MLAs to recognise
this and not to pose hurdles.
When pointed out that residents of Colvale-Camurlim were opposing the
project, Dr de Souza claimed that it was perhaps because they are
ill-informed and are being misguided by the local MLA.“The project details
must be explained to them. The impression being created is that it is going
to be a garbage dump because all that Goa has had till date are dumps at
Curca, Sonsddo and Mapusa,” he said.
Meanwhile, NCP’s joint secretary, Nilkanth Halarnkar, who was also present
at the press conference addressed by Dr de Souza, said he would continue
to back the Colvale residents opposing the project.
When asked for his reaction, Mr Halarnkar said, the residents of Colvale were
being dumped with several projects that have not benefited them much.
“First Binani Zinc, then the Power Grid Corporation was located there.
People have only lost their land and are getting no much benefit from
these projects,” he said. He said, now more pollution is being sought to
dumped on to Colvale through the garbage project.
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