VASCO: Dabolim and Cortalim constituencies in Mormugao taluka will now have an additional public works department (PWD) office to help deal with water supply related issues better. Until now, all four assembly constituencies in the taluka - Mormugao, Vasco, Dabolim and Cortalim - had only one PWD office catering to them, operating from Baina.
The additional office is expected to help get water supply related issues addressed quicker.
“Wherever the PWD has felt the need to create more offices and divisions, it has done so,” said a PWD official. The reason for creating new offices is the increase in workload due to higher density of residential units following rise in constructions and new water connections.
“Earlier the same team of officials had to attend to calls of the entire jurisdiction of the taluka. But now the services will improve with a new full-fledged office to specifically look after all the executions, attending to complaints and maintenance of pipelines,” said the official.
Though the new office premises is yet to be created, the newly-appointed assistant engineer Vishwambher Bhende and his team have begun work as a separate office from the PWD’s Baina office itself. The work of identification of a new premises is on for the additional PWD office.