NT NETWORK
MAPUSA
A delegation of Mapusa merchant association on Thursday urged the chairperson of Mapusa Municipal Council to look into issues like desilting of drains in the market, garbage collection and pay parking.
In view of inundation in the market that happens every monsoon, the delegation led by the merchant association president Ashish Shirodkar urged that the drains in the municipal market be desilted properly.
The delegation pointed that choking of the drains is a major problem in the market due to which flooding occurs and such blockages need to be identified and cleared for smooth flow of rain water. The delegation also requested the civic chairperson to undertake widening of the drains.
Chairperson Sandip Falari told the delegation that “the council has completed desilting works in all wards and now labourers can be used for drain cleaning work in the market and get all the drains desilted properly.
He said that “MMC is facing shortage of daily-wage labourers and presently entire desilting work is being carried out by the MMC labourers who will become free in two days and will be utilised for the market area work.”
President of Mapusa merchant association Shirodkar also told the chairperson that garbage collection in the market is not being done on daily basis. In this regard, the chairperson told the delegation that “the council has obtained a resolution to outsource the garbage collection task of the market area and the process is going on.”
It was also pointed that toilets in the municipal market do not have a soak pit and septic tank and, as a result, the sewage goes into the drains which causes nuisance during monsoon especially as the market gets flooded and the sewage flows everywhere.
“We will make a provision of tanks as soon as possible so that the sewage is not released in the drains,” said the chairperson Falari.
Another issue which was taken up by the delegation was that of pay parking which the council has resolved to implement.
Falari told the delegation that “we are waiting for the desilting work to be completed first and thereafter we will take up painting of pay parking areas.”