GUILHERME ALMEIDA If Curtorim villagers have sounded the bugle of agitation for the closure of the Sonsodo garbage dump, the authorities should blame themselves for the pathetic state of affairs there. Ask the member of the govt-appointed committee to oversee the situation, Microbiologist Dr Joe D'Souza. He says the situation is indeed "grim' at Sonsodo and want the civic body and all concerned to take the matter seriously before things go out of control.

CANACONA, JULY 4 - Though the solution to the garbage problem in rural Canacona is at miniature stage, it has received a boost in four villages with the taluka's BDO forwarding land acquisition proposals to the Directorate of Panchayats. According to sources, better days are ahead for the residents from Agonda, Loliem-Polem, Gaondongrim and Poinguinim on garbage disposal front. Canacona BDO has taken up the lands earmarked by the local bodies under the Rural Garbage Disposal Scheme 2005 for acquisition process.

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Like all previous years this year too the Bhopal Municipal Corporation failed to remove the garbage dumps and the rubble piled up on the footpaths and roadsides and desilt and clean the rainwater drains before the onset of the monsoons. Predictably, the unexpectedly heavy early monsoon showers have thrown the city out of gear. Once again the hapless citizens find themselves wading through ankle-deep/ knee-deep waters on the flooded streets and roads. It is a state of deluge in the low-lying areas.

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The Asansol Durgapur industrial hub is reeling under a severe crisis of disposal of solid waste these days. Though a solid waste management project has been planned under the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission, that still remains incomplete. The civic bodies having no other alternative are dumping garbage everywhere indiscriminately.

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Indiscriminate dumping of garbage within the town was forcibly prevented by the college lecturers, environmentalists and residents in a Durgapur locality this morning. Several garbage trucks were stranded as a result. Angry locals also assaulted the chairman of the respective borough committee when he allegedly tried to ignore the agitators. The civic body has decided to stop dumping waste in the disputed zone temporarily. The solid waste management plant of the civic body, however, is yet to be prepared although eight months have already passed.

MARGAO, JUNE 30 - Curtorim MLA Reginaldo Lourenco has moved the Sub-divisional Magistrate, Margao for a permanent order against dumping of garbage and waste at the Sonsodo dumpyard. The MLA has filed a petition in the Court of the Sub-divisional Magistrate, praying that for a stop to garbage dumping by the mmc. In his petition, he drew attention of the Court that the Sonsodo dump yard has turned out a nuisance to people residing in and around the dump yard with the Civic body failing to treat the waste in a scientific manner and under the Garbage management rules.

MARCEL, JUNE 30