ARPORA: Issues pertaining to garbage and sewage, being released by hotels in drains and on roads during monsoon, dominated the Nagoa-Arpora gram sabha on Sunday.
The villagers said that on the sewage issue no action had come forth. Antonio Correia brought to the notice of the gram sabha that a resort was creating nuisance during monsoons by releasing sewage on the road that flows into the fields and this sewage then gets accumulated and turns into mosquito-breeding ground.
He said that the panchayat should take cognisance of the menace and inform the health center about it.
A resolution was passed to construct a new drain in order to tackle the problem.
Acting sarpanch Augustinho D’Souza told the gram sabha that most of the drains are choked as such a new drain would be constructed.
The gram sabha also resolved to construct a retaining wall in Arpora. The budget for financial year 2017-18 with total receipts of Rs 2.89 crore and expenditure of Rs 2.77 crore was placed before the gram sabha.
The acting sarpanch informed the gram sabha that a budgetary allocation was made to construct a new panchayat ghar, roads and gutters in the village.
It was also informed that an area of around 8000 square metre was donated by the comunidade for the panchayat ghar, which will have a gym and a room for the comunidade office.
D’Souza brought to the notice of the gram sabha that stress would be laid on garbage management and starting door-to-door garbage collection. “We are planning to procure a new vehicle for garbage collection, the provision for which has been made in the budget,” informed D’Souza.