Mormugao civic body to set up waste transfer stations

VASCO: The Mormugao Municipal Council (MMC) is in the process of constructing 34 waste transfer stations in all its 25 wards to curb the menace of cattle and dogs spilling garbage from the bins kept at dumping points.
Once the garbage is collected in the bins, they will be kept locked in tin sheds till the waste is cleared the next day.
On August 18, TOI had highlighted how stray cattle were knocking over the bins and creating a mess at different dumping points in Baina. The project of setting up transfer stations was hampered as the contractor had left halfway. He restarted the work only after a show cause notice was served to him.
MMC councillor Deepak Naik, who is a former MMC chairperson, said, “The garbage menace has become a major issue. In my ward, especially in front of the Baina fish market, the waste lies strewn all over the road.”
“The project is to build 34 transfer stations, each costing Rs 1.24 lakh. The construction has already begun. But at a few places, people are objecting. Each waste transfer station will have a concrete floor, poles of iron and the structure and roof of tin sheets,” MMC chief Nandadeep Raut said.