PANAJI: The problem of garbage in Goa dominated the Goa state environmental council meeting on Thursday with chief minister Manohar Parrikar promising to have many answers ready at a special meeting of the council to be held on September 18.
Environment minister Alina Saldanha told TOI that Parrikar has promised to bring forth solutions to the vexed problem of garbage in terms of collection, segregation, treatment, technology, etc. Parrikar also invited those interested in knowing more about the technology to join the Goa delegation which will visit Germany to personally inspect a functioning garbage treatment plant, the technology of which has been favoured to be adopted in Goa.
Parrikar also said that municipalities and village panchayats can be pulled up for inaction in implementing garbage management rules only once the entire garbage management system is put in place. This will happen by the end of the year, Parrikar said. Saldanha said that environment education should be imparted to students at a young age and therefore 120 schools in Goa have been selected for the Green Goa Scheme on garbage management. Under this, teachers have been trained to educate students to collect dry garbage from their homes and compounds. The students are expected to bring this to their schools and dispose it in the bins provided there. "This will not only educate the students, but also their parents who will learn about segregating waste at source," said Saldanha.
She said that fining of violators will also help. The modalities on this measure are being worked out. Besides, efforts are on to replace plastic bags in Goa with cloth bags prepared by mahila mandals, she said.
The council was also informed that the mineral policy and the forest policy have been sent to the law department for vetting and will be notified after the directions of the Supreme Court are considered.
Measures for coastal protection will be taken in consultation with the national institute of ocean technology, Chennai, which is working out the plans. The meeting also discussed issues like the status of the Regional Plan 2021, the remaining debris of the River Princess, the Mhadei river water diversion project, prohibition of public smoking, etc.
The meeting, which was chaired by governor B V Wanchoo, was also attended by high ranking government officials including chief secretary B Vijayan, department heads, environmentalists Nandakumar Kamat, Rajendra Kerkar and others.
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