Wow, fantastic plans! Not all favouring all, but many favouring some......
> From: [email protected] > Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2012 04:55:58 +0530 > Subject: [SALIGAONET] Pissing on beach pisses off MLA: Soon, a clean Calangute > To: [email protected] > > Pissing on beach pisses off MLA: - huh! good one! Soon, a clean Calangute - > at the expense of Saligao? seeing that the Calangute garbage site is above > Saligao leading to the waste getting down to our village? > 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 oh really? good > thinking! send the garbage from their backyard to Saligao's front > one......Hope our Cabinet Minister Dilip has the ear of the CM just as MLA > Lobo & Sarpanch Sequeira have. > near department of science and technology in Saligao. else we can expect dry > & wet waste to come streaming towards our homes. > > But whether Calangute will get its own garbage treatment plant at that > site, Hope not! 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. (that would be better, wouldnt it? roll on, roll on) 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 Annette -- 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]
