CUNCOLIM GARBAGE Cuncolim is burning. Burning over the fires of garbage. A garbage problem which is rocking and sailing all over Goa. Cuncolim is the latest causality. None have been able to address the problem in Goa . Poor Filono vaz chair person of Cuncolim municipal council is caught in the cross fire and the latest garbage victim. Cross fire that should have been addressed long time ago. The last one year or so Garbage handling in the state has been hits the news stands with regularity.
Garbage not in my back yard is the key word all around for the agitators. Then what are the solutions to the problems emerging form the agitations. Is there is any plan of action to handle garbage. How about handling garbage at the local level. The garbage problems in fast developing villages and small municipal areas in a small bubble. A bubble, which is going to burst in, the long run if not addressed at the nascent stage. Calling the current garbage problem in the villages and some of the municipal areas like Cuncolim as a nascent stage will be not be under estimating the problem. A far greater tragedy waits if the problem is not addressed now as Cuncolim population thanks to the migrant inflow is increasing and the garbage problem will increase proportionally. The agitators at Nanguillo Cuncolim have been passive sufferers for the last five years of the earlier council term. The sufferers suddenly found a man from own locality moving into the hot seat of the council and the first came for Vaz from his own locality that of garbage. Cuncolim citizens committee member Oscar martins has joined the chorus of voices in the garbage stint. Like in the migrant issue wherein Oscar martins woke from his slumber after the Kasmiri Batlo issue here too Oscar has blown his trumpet. Oscar has threatened to throw the garbage in front of the municipality from the Cuncolim bazaar. With garbage dumping closed at the regular Siddnagar garbage site. Cuncolim municipality has withdrawn the garbage collection bins from the market. Martins instead of destructive ideas why not come with something constructive for a change. All of us should work towards a constructive society and not fight among ourselves over petty things over garbage, caste and other things, which you have been doing for the last ten years. It would be worth while with Martins coming up with a solution to the garbage problem from your end. How about treating the garbage in your back yard that would be the greatest social work to your credit. Have the agitators like Martins approached the problem in a constructive way and tried to find solutions to the problems. Treating waste from biodegradable garbage to non-biodegradable garbage in a efficient way. If they are so much concerned about the garbage as citizens then martins should take at the lead and find ways in handling the garbage problem at each ward and each house hold level. Instead of one dump yard for Cuncolim, Cuncolkars should find ways to handle each ones garbage individually. For that to happen we need committed citizens like Oscar Martins. I for one do not have differences with Martins over his commitments to issues. The commitment should materialize in the good of society and solutions to perennial problems. Hopefully Oscar martins would set the bal rolling and get to address the problem at the local level and handling the garbage the problem scientifically. A lot also needs to be done regarding educating people regarding garbage in the village and municipal areas like Cuncolim. The education and awareness over garbage to happen would take another ten years from the experience I have in the way the problem is handled by some people in Cuncolim. The urgent solutions would be to carry awareness on a more vigorous manner at the school level. Hopefully Filoino Vaz, Cuncolim MLA Joaquim Alemao and committed citizens like Oscar martins of the Cuncolim citizens group would have a master plan of long term and short term duration to the problem which is burning fire over the red soil of Cuncolim. I have high hopes that In the next few days the fire over garbage would settle down and Vaz and his council along with the MlA would be free to address the other issues and development of Cuncolim END Armstrong Vaz sanvorcotto cuncolim Salcete Goa India. _____________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. Goanet mailing list ([email protected])
