The ambitious exercise to make Margao clean and green got underway at the SGPDA parking lot on Sunday.
Even as Chief Minister Digambar Kamat rooted for planting fruit bearing saplings as part of the tree plantation drive, the Margao Municipal Council along with NGOs Rotary Club and Nisarga has identified around 200 sites within the municipal jurisdiction to grow more trees.

the Goa Sewerage Corporation appears a worried lot over the lukewarm response to the sewerage scheme in the Commercial Capital.
More than a year after sewerage work commenced in Sirvodem-Margao with the Trenchless technology, ninety-five per cent of the work stands completed, but the Sewerage Corporation has nothing to cheer about.

Chief Minister Digambar Kamat had recently said that the ugly side of Margao can be overcome by putting in place a system to manage garbage disposal.
But, the authorities appear to have still not worked out any mechanism in place to tackle the burning garbage problem.

Navelim villagers want land acquisition process withdrawn

MARGAO, MARCH 14
Navelim villagers on Sunday have resolved to oppose tooth and nail government

South Goa MP Francisco Sardinha took a dig at PWD Minister Churchill Alemao for seeking Rs 1000 crore to fund sewerage projects, saying the PWD department should first ensure that the existing sewage network laid years ago is put to optimum use.

The Margao Municipal authorities appear taking their own time on the question of setting up of a garbage treatment plant at Sonsodo, but residents staying close to the dump yard now face the brunt of the delay in not attending to the problem promptly.

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Navelim villagers on Sunday demanded the intervention of the government to save the once picturesque Xelpem lake polluted by the discharge of sewage waters from neighbouring Margao city.
Agitated villagers sought to know why the government has been going slow in working out a solution to the problem despite the fact that sewage waters flow continuously flow into the lake every day.

Chief Minister Digambar Kamat on Wednesday assured a delegation of Citizens Welfare Committee (CWC) that he would instruct the Inspector of City survey and Land Records to conduct a fresh survey of Margao and Fatorda to put in place a land use map of the Town.

There seems no respite for the aam aami from piling garbage in the Commercial Capital.

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