PORVORIM: The government is hopeful of finalizing two high technology garbage treatment plants for each district of Goa by November 2012. Chief minister Manohar Parrikar announced this on the floor of the Assembly while intervening in a discussion on a starred question by Dabolim Congress MLA Mauvin Godinho to urban development minister Francis D'Souza.

With Godinho repeatedly prodding the government for a deadline to solve the festering garbage problem in Goa, Parrikar said that his government would "tentatively" float an expression of interest or go for a tender to identify the "correct working technology" to treat garbage in Goa.

Once the technology has been identified, the government will take a delegation to visit a treatment plant where that technology is functioning to ensure that it does not emanate any foul smell.

The chief minister said that various parties have presented the government with about five different technologies to treat garbage. He said the failure of previous governments to resolve the problem was because it had failed to identify the correct technology.