From: drferdina...@hotmail.com To: goa...@goanet.org Subject: Margao garbage collection Date: Sun, 3 Aug 2014 07:15:43 +0530
The Margão Municipality has a couple of days back started the door to door garbage collection. Two municipal migrant workers go to houses and flats in the city to collect the garbage. They enter buildings in the city and have a free right to access by the blessings of the Municipality. They have no uniforms that they can be identified, and knock residential doors in the mornings. This exercise is an intrusion into the privacy of the residents and also a compromise of their safety and security. In time, these migrants will know the movements of residents of each and every flat/house. Besides, residents go for work, children to school, and mostly some maid or elderly member of family is at home during working hours, and opening doors during these hours is a risk to life and property. Any criminal too can take advantage of the situation and claim to be collecting garbage. And it is also to be noted that most of these migrant Municipal workers are paan/tobacco chewing individuals and spit anywhere along staircase walls, etc. defacing private property. I request the Municipality to stop this door to door stupid and birdbrained idea as they are not only trespassing into private area, but also compromising the safety and security of the residents. And that is illegal! Dr. Ferdinando dos Reis Falcão