Apart from formalin issue which is alarming this state of Goa we have equally another powerful polluted black smoke emitting from the vehicles which we are inhaling daily especially from the transport vehicles and buses running on our roads and police are found only catching riders not wearing helmets. This smoke can give rise to lung cancer with pulmorary ailment or respiratory disease. Our cops and RTO officials are daily seen catching especially young students riding motorcycles/scooters in the city without helmet and challaning them but not for pollution certificates. Buses or any vehicle emitting black smokes should have been a top priority? Today while I was coming to Panjim from Dona Paula I saw a bus which was giving a solid black smoke and none of the traffic police took any interest. So I drove directly to the Traffic Cell department and inforned all those cops sitting there and gave the bus number so that this bus when it reached the Panjim bus stand can be caught and channel the driver. But none of them took any interest.There are plenty of such buses especially from KTC and transport vehicles which comes with the load of consignment to Panjim market are very much polluted. Even the SC has instructed the Insurance companies not to issue insurance certificates to vehicles if they do not produce polllution certificates. I have a bit experience that certain approved private garages do issue pollution certificates without much difficulties and there is no one so far is denied a pollution certificate if their vehicle is even above the permissible limits. Goverment must approve standard garages or some institutions for this strict testing. Definitely this environmental issue by polluting the cities is alarming and could be much more harmful than of today's issue of formaldehyde which is been mixing with fishes and now it appears rescinding slowly.
Stephen Dias Dona Paula mob 9422443110 24th July 2018 Sent from my Samsung device