---------------------------------------------------------- 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 !! ---------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------- Documented by Goa Desc Resource Centre (GDRC) Email:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ---------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------- HC order on landfill site has Cuncolim CO in tight spot ------------------------------------------------------------- Will Cuncolim achieve the distinction of having a secured landfill site for hazardous industrial waste, when the Town is grappling with the problem of garbage disposal for want of land?
This is a question haunting local residents as the High Court has directed Cuncolim Municipal Chief Officer to decide afresh the applications of two hazardous industries — Sunrise Zinc and Nicomet — for grant of permission to construct secured landfill site for disposal of hazardous waste. The High Court directives has put the Chief Officer in a tight spot and has raised questions in the public mind, as the Cuncolim Municipal Council had on two earlier occasions rejected permission for the landfill site construction. In fact, CMC had even demanded closure of the two hazardous industries pending construction of the secured landfill site by the State government at Dharbandara — instead of allowing any landfill site, just outside the limits of Cuncolim Industrial Estate. The High Court directives now mandates the Chief Officer to consider the question of grant of approval to the construction plans strictly in accordance with Section 184 of the Goa Municipalities Act and uninfluenced by any resolutions passed by the Municipal Council or any other earlier order of rejection on any earlier application made by the two industries. This implies the Chief Officer will have to go by the Municipal Act and not by the opinion of the City Fathers or local residents, who incidentally are totally opposed to any secured landfill site on its territory given the past history of rampant pollution at the Cuncolim Industrial Estate. Local residents wonder whether there's a need to build a secured landfill site for chemical waste on 28,000 sq mts of land owned by the two Industries, when the town is unable to find suitable land for garbage disposal. "Isn't it strange that while no land is available for garbage disposal, there's a move to build a landfill site for hazardous industries", remarked a City Father. Incidentally, the landfill site has received approval from NEERI and Goa Pollution Control Board and the High Court had opined that while considering the question whether construction permission is required to be granted or not, some fault will have to be found with the view taken by NEERI or the Goa State Pollution Control Board. ---------------------------------- HERALD 22/10/07 page 3 ----------------------------------- ==================================== GOA DESC RESOURCE CENTRE Documentation + Education + Solidarity 11 Liberty Apts., Feira Alta, Mapusa, Goa 403 507 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Working On Issues Of Development & Democracy =====================================
