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Bogmalo residents protest against irregular water
supply
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Agitated over irregular water supply since last one week, around 250
residents of Bogmalo area today blocked the road leading to Bogmalo
beach causing obstruction to traffic.The villagers
revealed that they had
earlier requested the Minister for PWD besides the
assistant engineer,
PWD, Vasco, to redress their grievances.The Sancoale zilla panchayat
member, Mr Vasant Naik and Chicolna-Bogmalo panchayat
sarpanch,
Mr Gabriel DÂ’Cruz were among the
agitators.
Speaking to The Navhind
Times, Mr Naik stated the government have not
done anything to provide
regular supply of water.The executive magistrate,
Mormugao, Ms Sheru
Shirodkar intervened in the matter and requested
agitators to solve the
issue amicably. She called the assistant engineer,
PWD, Mr Uday Kumar and had
talks with him. She also asked the
assistant engineer to
provide water at least for 2 hours a day.
Mr Uday Kumar said the
problem is due to low supply of water from
Selaulim. The Vasco needs
about 65 MLD of water, however, it gets
only 51 to 52 MLD water per
day, which is not sufficient to cope up
with the need of entire
Vasco city.
The Chicolna-Bogmalo
village panchayat gets water pumped from the
master-balancing reservoir,
Verna. It requires regular pumping with
high pressure of water
provided from the Selaulim. The problem of the
Chicolna- Bogmalo panchayat
villagers can be solved if the 200 mm
branch pipeline is replaced
by large pipeline connected to the 900 mm
pipeline of
Selaulim.
With the assurance of
providing water minimum for 2 hours a day from
the assistant engineer,
PWD, Mr Kumar, the villagers cleared the road
at around 4.15 p.m. The
villagers have also threatened to resort to
rasta roko, if the problem
persists.
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The Navhind Times 3/02/06 page 2
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