Pissing on beach pisses off MLA: Soon, a clean Calangute TNN Apr 8, 2012, 02.25AM IST
PANAJI: While plans are afoot to spruce up the Calangute-Candolim beachfront in the long-run, the PWD is drawing up plans to put up latrines, changing rooms and shower rooms for tourists at Calangute beach. Lobo and Sequeira were especially keen on the latrines, changing rooms and shower rooms because according to Lobo, if one stands on the steps leading to the beach in front of the Calangute Residency, one sees at least "ten people per minute, urinating in the open" near the garbage heap opposite the Residency, sending the stench of urine all around. The capacity of the sewage treatment plant at the Calangute Residency will also be increased, Lobo said. Calangute MLA Michael Lobo told STOI on Saturday that he and Calangute sarpanch Joseph Sequeira recently took a team of PWD officials around Calangute beach and impressed upon them the need to construct toilets, changing rooms and shower rooms for tourists next to, and in the property of, the GTDC-owned Calangute Residency. The project has the blessings of PWD minister Ramkrishna Dhavalikar, who green-lighted the initiative after a meeting with the Calangute MLA and sarpanch. A series of other initiatives are in the pipeline for the betterment of Calangute village and the constituency as a whole. At a meeting with chief minister Manohar Parrikar, Lobo and Sequeira apprised Parrikar about the traffic problems in the village. Parrikar immediately directed the traffic cell of Goa police to put up a traffic cell in Calangute. Lobo said he and Sequeira escorted deputy superintendent of police Serafin Dias on a trip to Calangute and Baga and identified spots where traffic cell personnel should monitor. Lobo said the government had already sanctioned a traffic cell for Calangute a long time back, and it is time they implement it soon. The chief minister has already agreed to the demand of Lobo and Sequeira to give two SUVs to the Calangute Panchayat for garbage collection on the beach. These SUVs will collect dry waste from the beach as well as wet waste from the beach shacks to be disposed off at the existing garbage disposal site on the Calangute plateau near the department of science and technology in Saligao. But whether Calangute will get its own garbage treatment plant at that site, as demanded by the Calangute Sarpanch, is undecided. While Lobo and Sequeira want to build a smaller garbage treatment plant to handle the waste of the constituency, the chief minister seems interested in a large garbage treatment plant for entire North Goa at another location. Lobo said this and other issues, including a sewage treatment plant for Calangute, will be discussed with the chief minister at another meeting next week. http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2012-04-08/goa/31307755_1_calangute-sarpanch-calangute-beach-calangute-panchayat -- FN +91-832-2409490 or +91-9822122436 [email protected] Books from Goa,1556 http://scr.bi/Goa1556Books Audio recordings (mostly from Goa): http://bit.ly/GoaRecordings -- Saligao-Net is at http://groups.google.com/group/saligao-net To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe email [email protected]
