The New System of Cleaning Roads and Bridges.
Courtesy: Manohar Parrikar's Government of Goa.
I travel to Panjim only when required and when unavoidable, which is often.
Many times that I have driven to Panjim, I have taken photographs of
stunted telephone poles being hindrance and dangerous to road traffic at the
foot of the Mandovi bridge, and after the exposure, it being removed. I
have taken photographs of the trash piled up on the side of the Mandovi
bridges and posted them for the world of Goans to see and be ashamed about,
but we have never seen anybody with a broom sweeping, collecting the stuff
and taking it away. The Goa government has always relied on the passing
traffic's air wake to clean the twin bridges. I had to write a tribute to
the COOKING GAS CYLINDER (during the first tenure of Manohar Parrikar as CM
of Goa) which was monumentalized at the entrance of the Twin Mandovi Bridges
(from the Secretariat side) when it was removed in a jiffy.
Today was different. As I was crossing to Panjim over the old Mandovi
Bridge, I saw a couple of trash-pickers picking up the trash collected for
ages on the Panjim side of the bridge. But before I could say whow ! and
release a sigh of relief, a double take on the action of those two rag
pickers was a disaster, actually. Thanks to God I did not break hard to get
a photograph. If I had done that as a reflex action, there was every
possibility of a pile up of cars resulting in calamities and even deaths.
Hold your breath> These two rag-pickers were picking up the plastics and
whatever from the side of the bridge with long sticks and throwing it into
the river over the side of the bridge. No broom. No garbage bag. No nothing,
not even uniforms.
Discreet enquiries with my friends in Panjim got me to understand that the
Manohar Parrikar Government has recently signed a voluminous contract with
a foreign / outside Goa firm to keep the twin Panjim bridges clean. If this
is the type of cleaning that we Goans get from expensive contractors, then
it is better to have boards posted over the length of the bridges saying '
WARNING ! THROW YOUR WASTE OVER THE SIDE INTO THE RIVER OR GET FINED.
This way Goa's exchequer will save a lot of crores and also keep the
bridges clean.
Cheers
floriano
goasuraj
9890470896
www.goasu-raj.org
PS: After 2017 - with the GSRP Government running Goa's affairs, No
Government Minister or MLA will cross the Mandovi - Zuari Bridge if a rag is
found not to have been taken away within a short span of time from it being
deposited, with the depositor fined and even jailed for a day. Such will be
the caliber of CLEANLINESS that Goans are yet to see and enjoy.
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