Goa: Waste management corporation to oversee shifting of scrapyards

PANAJI: The state executive, in accordance with a petition in the high court in 2008, had confident to transport all scrapyards to ‘trade zones’. But as implementation never took off, the government has now appointed Goa Waste Management Corporation as the nodal company to hold out the relocation.

Scrapyards have sprouted across the state, particularly through the roadside, the worst example of this being the stretches in Karaswada and Colvale in North Goa.

For orderly established order of those scrap recycling units, the government had formulated the Goa Waste (Scrap) Recycling Units Scheme, 2010, to meet the promise made in the court. As in step with the scheme, the scrapyards have been to be shifted to trade zones inside of a period of two years. However, as the method of established order of trade zones could now not be finished inside of this period, the scheme was prolonged through any other two years, as much as November 2012. The extensions continued with out resolving the issue.

In many places, the scrapyards perform illegally and occupy comunidade or executive land with out authorisation. The executive has now finally issued a notification which states, “The executive is desirous of appointing the Goa Waste Management Corporation as nodal company for the aim of relocating the scrapyards through either formulating a new scheme or through editing the earlier notified scheme.”