Our High Court has very rightly rapped the Corporation of City of Panaji (CCP) for highhandedly having converted the Campal Parade ground into a garbage dump. Part of that waste has now been dumped at the very entrance of Ribandar. The inaction by the Goa State Pollution Control Board on this gross violation of law is also questionable.
Over the years the CCP has been only moving around the heaps of garbage while the issue has now reached a point of crisis. It has been garbage mismanagement galore. The very vital Panaji market and our Kadamba Bus terminal are stinking and in very dire straits, while the St Inez and Rua de Ourem creeks continue to be a horrible eyesore with our nostrils bearing the brunt of that unbearable stench. The stagnation and neglect of vital infrastructure, the environment and sustainable development is all too evident. The city’s gardens and parks are also in a despicable state. The coffers of the CCP should have actually been overflowing but for reasons known to all they are empty or rather have been willfully emptied. The inaction of the authorities on the over two decade old multi crore Panaji market scam says it all. Unless there is transparency and accountability in the working of the CCP with Zero Tolerance to any scams, Goa’s capital city will languish as it is. With the CCP elections scheduled for March next year let us hope the citizens elect young and bright Corporators who are knowledgeable persons with integrity and a vision. False promises have been made by MLAs and corporators and repeatedly broken and people let down who have to put up with this stagnation and stench. The people deserve much better than this deliberate rapid decline of their city spiraling out of control through corruption and lack of planning and action by officials not fit for purpose. The capital city of the once Pearl of the Orient is now reduced to the eyesore of the East. Enough is Enough! Aires Rodrigues Advocate High Court C/G-2, Shopping Complex Ribandar Retreat, Ribandar – Goa – 403006 Mobile No: 9822684372 Office Tel No: (0832) 2444012 Email: airesrodrigu...@gmail.com Or airesrodrig...@yahoo.com You can also reach me on Facebook.com/ AiresRodrigues Twitter@rodrigues_aires www.airesrodrigues.com