The Times of India             05.11.2013

Director of municipal administration intervenes, work at Sonsoddo to resume

MARGAO: With work on the sanitary landfill site at Sonsoddo being halted for over a week, the director of municipal administration (DMA) has now intervened and issued directions that work be resumed immediately.

DMA Elvis Gomes called both parties-Fomento Green CEO Shridhar Kamat and Margao Municipal Council's (MMC) chief officer Deepali Naik and chairperson Dayanand Dulkar-for a meeting to his office in Panaji on Monday. The meeting was held to break the impasse over work at the site being halted since last Monday after Raia locals blocked trucks carrying mud from Sonsoddo for the construction of the Nuvem bypass. Gomes also wanted to review the situation after both parties appeared to be upset with each other with Kamat alleging that Naik was not cooperating and not being proactive enough to resolve the issue.

After hearing both parties, the MMC received directions to write to the district collector regarding the current situation and that steps be taken to ensure that work is resumed at Sonsoddo. The collector had met the MMC CO, chairperson and Raia locals to discuss the law and order situation after locals had forcibly stopped work. It was also discussed at the meeting that work on the landfill site had begun soon after the monsoon and was expected to be completed in five-six months but that if work on the hill cutting and mud transportation does not resume immediately, work on the landfill site may get further delayed.

"I am happy that Gomes has intervened and that work will be resumed," said Kamat after the meeting.