----------------------------------------------------- Do GOACAN a favour, circulate this email to your family members, relatives, neighbours and friends. Help others be BETTER INFORMED, The time is come for the people of Goa to ORGANISE not AGONISE !! ----------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------- Most civic bodies callous on garbage front --------------------------------------------- The party is over - It's now time to smell the garbage! >From information furnished in the on-going session of the Goa Assembly, it appears that almost all the municipalities and panchayats in the State are yet to comply with the statutory provisions for proper treatment and disposal of garbage generated in their respective areas.
In accordance to the Municipal Solid Waste (Management and handling) Rules 2000, all municipalities are required to comply with the provisions of the said rules by December 31, 2004. Similarly, as per the Rural Garbage Disposal Scheme 2005, all the panchayats are required to identify their garbage disposal site by February 18, 2005. The Department of Environment has disclosed that only some of the municipal councils and panchayats have partly complied with the provisions and that the Goa State Pollution Control Board (GSPCB) intends taking appropriate action against the defaulters as provided under the law. Data furnished in the House states that the municipal councils have to undertake door-to-door collection of garbage, segregation of garbage, process bio-degradable waste and establish a landfill for non-biodegradable waste. It has been disclosed that the Corporation of the City of Panaji is the only civic boy which has complied with the rules of door-to-door collection and segregation of garbage and has only partly complied with the rules for processing bio-degradable waste. Panjim Corporation is closely flowed by the Bicholim Municipal Council which has complied with just the requirements for segregation and processing of biodegradable waste. The BMC has however not complied with the rules for door-to-door collection of waste. The CCP and the Bicholim Municipal Council have both not complied with the requirements for land fills to handle non-bio-degradable waste. Alarmingly most of the other 11 municipal councils have not complied with any of the four requirements. The defaulting municipalities are: Mapusa, Ponda, Valpoi, Margao, Mormugao, Pernem, Quepem, Cuncolim, Canacona, Sanguem and Curchorem. Data on panchayats also indicates that a large number of them are yet to identify garbage disposal sites. Chairman of the Goa State Pollution Control Board, Dr L U Joshi who had initiated preliminary action of issuing notices to the violators said, "I will be discussing this matter once again with the minister for environment shortly. ------------------------------------------ HERALD 30/07/06 page 1 ------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------ GOA CIVIC AND CONSUMER ACTION NETWORK ----------------------------------------------------------- promoting civic and consumer rights in Goa ----------------------------------------------------------- GOACAN Post Box 187 Margao, Goa 403 601 GOACAN Post Box 78 Mapusa, Goa 403 507 mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Goanet mailing list [email protected] http://lists.goanet.org/listinfo.cgi/goanet-goanet.org
