Confiscated items clutter Margao municipal building
Nisser Dias | TNN | Apr 6, 2019, 08:28 IST
The clutter is giving a wrong message, MMC chief Babita Prabhudessai saidCOLVA: Enter the Margao Municipal building, and you’d be forgiven for thinking that you’ve walked into a makeshift convenience store of sorts.
In a welcome move, MMC had earlier initiated a drive seizing items and goods kept for sale on pavements, thus obstructing people’s movement. However, instead of making place for these items in its godown, the civic body has resorted to dumping the goods confiscated by municipal inspectors inside the building.
From brooms and mops, racks filled with packets of chips to beverage chillers and a whole lot of other assorted items, this sight greets visitors to the heritage building.
That’s not all. The municipal garden, the pride of Goa’s commercial capital, is also plagued by a similar problem. Located right opposite the building, seized items like the handcarts, hoardings, wood and other items are dumped here.
Despite a 2012 decision by the Margao Municipal Council (MMC) to not use the garden for any other purpose, the civic body continues to use the space to dump such material seized from erring market vendors so much so that one employee even commented saying how can the city fathers, who are expected to keep the city clean, do so when they are unable to maintain cleanliness in the council building and garden itself.
Another Margao resident came down heavily on the civic body stating that while they are charging money to collect garbage from houses and establishment, they have failed to keep their own premises clean.
Agreeing that this is sending out a wrong message, the council’s chairperson Babita Prabhudessai said, “I have instructed the chief officer to clear the mess. Besides being an important premises, it is also a heritage building and nobody likes to see the mess.”
Apart from the mess inside the building, Angle said the civic body has also sought permission from the directorate of municipal administration to clear the mess from the garden.
However, when questioned about it, MMC chief officer Siddivinayak Naik curtly said, “We will take care of it.”
In a welcome move, MMC had earlier initiated a drive seizing items and goods kept for sale on pavements, thus obstructing people’s movement. However, instead of making place for these items in its godown, the civic body has resorted to dumping the goods confiscated by municipal inspectors inside the building.
From brooms and mops, racks filled with packets of chips to beverage chillers and a whole lot of other assorted items, this sight greets visitors to the heritage building.
That’s not all. The municipal garden, the pride of Goa’s commercial capital, is also plagued by a similar problem. Located right opposite the building, seized items like the handcarts, hoardings, wood and other items are dumped here.
Despite a 2012 decision by the Margao Municipal Council (MMC) to not use the garden for any other purpose, the civic body continues to use the space to dump such material seized from erring market vendors so much so that one employee even commented saying how can the city fathers, who are expected to keep the city clean, do so when they are unable to maintain cleanliness in the council building and garden itself.
Another Margao resident came down heavily on the civic body stating that while they are charging money to collect garbage from houses and establishment, they have failed to keep their own premises clean.
Agreeing that this is sending out a wrong message, the council’s chairperson Babita Prabhudessai said, “I have instructed the chief officer to clear the mess. Besides being an important premises, it is also a heritage building and nobody likes to see the mess.”
Apart from the mess inside the building, Angle said the civic body has also sought permission from the directorate of municipal administration to clear the mess from the garden.
However, when questioned about it, MMC chief officer Siddivinayak Naik curtly said, “We will take care of it.”
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