Hi Maria and other recipients,
I have some work for you; in case you and your hubby are free you may extend your help for your GOA. You see as you are aware that I am an activist and my interest is for Goa to become prosperous and not me. After my retirement from NIO, I decided to do something for my lovely state of Goa. Here lots of cheating, corruption and crookedness is going on. But we are keeping them on toes. Whether I will succeed or not, it will be my pleasure and happiness to do that for my Goa. Now coming to the point: We have here one chap who is a Goan origin has come down from Sidney and his name is Nitin Lotliker, he is a Mechanical Engineer. He is well versed with the BIO EARTH PRODUCTS in Sidney and in the whole Australia. He works in City Council in Sidney in “PENRITH CITY COUNCIL” known as PCC. His e-mail is: [email protected] .au and his website is www.bioearthproducts.com.au He lives at Unit 2, 51 York Road, Penrith NSW 2750 Australia Tel: 61-2-4722-8199 Here in Goa his local contact is: [email protected] and Mob: 9822185826 Since you are at Sidney and long time resident, and as my relative, I would request you that this may be investigated and known to me if this gentleman Nitin Lotliker, Mech. Engineer, works in that Council and whatever he claims on such products at the Council in Penrith on bioproducts are really guaranteed or are they bogus. Because, we in Goa especially the Goa State Pollution Control Board Chairman is keen to have these new technology in Goa as our products on waste managements appears to be obsolete and incorrect. Mr Nitin has shown us the samples of various kinds of products and explained its manufacturing technique at Penrith-Australia. He has visited a site in Margao called Sonsoddo a huge pile of accumulated garbage looking like a mountain and suggested lost of remedies, and said it is criminal, and also visited a number of 5-star Hotels in Goa including a 7-star Grand Hyat at Bambolim and found they supply to their clients/customers bags of substandard and nonbiodegradable having no Indian or International Standard. Many other big business centers in Panjim he has found they also supply plastic bags of substandard gauge. He met Alina Saldanha, our Environment and Forest Minister as well as the Chairman of GSPCB Mr Jose Manuel Noronha in this regard and they are well impressed about the products and the presentation given to all of us, which includes my friend Dr.Joe D’Sousa former Prof of Microbiology at Goa University and expert on Environment, who was very much engrossed on these products and waste management technique related to environment. We had a good interaction with Nitin Lotliker at Goa Pollution Control Board yesterday. He is likely to visit the City Corporation of Panjim (CCP) officials and the Chief Minister of Goa. I am forwarding simultaneously mails to other my friends to get as much as information as possible on the garbage management so that we are not being cheated. The point is, we have to do something to get Goa relieved from this garbage issue which is mounting at all the places in the Goa State and the solution to get rid of it, is not yet achieved. Lots of suggestions, from our beurocrats , Ministers and others and recently our Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar and his team of architects have visited sites abroad especially in Germany and other countries etc in this connection and they are been trying to impose their techniques in our land. I am afraid that these ideas if they do not work after spending crores of rupees, Goa may reach in the state of bankruptcy. We had recently a presentation on Holistic Development of Panaji by LKS Spain, Ms Maria Mendizabal director and architect of this consultant firm LKS. She has focused her presentation on Mobility, Utilities, Green and public spaces, heritage and city branding at Marquinez Palace ,Panjim. Your feedback may be sent to her on: [email protected], The total project predicted by me could be not less than 2000 crores. Mr. Parrikar our Chief Minister feels that it should be around Rs 800 to 1000 crores. Financial estimates have not been finalised yet by LKS. Let us see what is going to happen to Panjim. It is a gigantic plan where nobody knows where there are storm drains in Panjim city and no plans and maps are available with CCP or PWD, during the Portuguese regime. May be the roads will have to dug up again and again, as usual. That is the reason I would request you, being a Goan in origin, would give us some feedback from the place called Penrith (PCC) and advice us on garbage issue. Accordingly I shall send your views to our Govt of Goa. I am giving you the details what is written in one of the sample green plastic bag offered to me by him; it is a green plastic fine bag looks wonderful and good style; it comes from Penrith City Council: This bag reads as: Please use this bag for food waste and place in your green-lidded organic bin. - Fruit and vegetable scraps - -Fish , meat and bones - -Tea bags and coffee grounds - -Leftover foods - Bread, cereal, pasta and grains - Paper towel and tissues WE CANNOT compost : -Plastic bags - Glass -Plasics -Metals -Bottle tops THIS BAG IS MADE FROM CORNSTARCH AND SUITABLE FOR COMPOSTING. Please do not use plastic bags as an alternative, even if they are labeled as biodegradable; they may not break down quickly enough for composting. BY; BEACAUSE WE CARE PENRITH CITY COUNCIL APPROVED AS 4736 ABAP 10019 ON AUSTRALIAN STANDARD AS4736-2006 By the Australian Bioplastics Association (ABA) Please reply to this mail with details after your investigations, as I know that you are equally competent and concerned and being an activist in Sidney and Melbourne you should be able to help and give us your advice. Thanks Stephen Dias D.Paula-Goa Date: 24.7.2013
