QUEPEM: Transportation of e-auctioned ore from Cavrem, Pirla, through the the city right through college hours is raising critical considerations with heavy vehicular motion posing a threat to the safety of college kids.
In the previous, the trucks followed a set regimen. They would halt at Tank, Ambaulim, and would start plying handiest after 8am when the kids have been within the college premises. Operations would halt again from 1pm to 2pm, college ultimate hours. Presently, alternatively, the trucks ply continuously from 7am to 7pm, leaving some voters agitated over the priority given to ore transportation over kids’s safety.
“The safety of our kids is at stake because of rash and negligent using,” stated Quepem the city resident Alwyn Menezes. Meanwhile, former Quepem municipal council chairperson Manuel Colaco threatened to start an agitation if due safety precautions don't seem to be enforced right through the morning and afternoon hours. He often known as on Quepem deputy collector, Rohit Kadam, and requested him to stop transportation between 7am to 8am and 1pm to 2pm. “The transportation system should also be streamlined for the safety of the general public,” he stated.
Kadam told IdealNews that he has issued instructions to site visitors mobile PI to straight away observe Supreme Court pointers for ore transportation. “I've steered them to allow ore trucks to ply handiest from 8am to 1pm and from 2pm to 6pm,” Kadam stated.
Colaco also identified to the federal government’s failure to start a mining corridor and even whole the land acquisition procedure for a similar. “Mining activities haven’t even started in complete swing, however trucks are being lined up on the roads, disrupting site visitors. We don’t know what's going to happen latter when mining resumes,” he stated.
On Friday night time, two mining trucks collided at Igramoll, Quepem, disrupting site visitors on the Quepem-Cuncolim road for almost four hours. Eye witnesses told IdealNews that both trucks, proceeding in reverse directions, have been being driven at top velocity, this regardless of having a velocity monitor installed. The impact of the collision was once such that the empty truck twisted and fell into the drain. Two pedestrians had a fortunate break out. Witnesses on the site stated the motive force of the empty truck was once inebriated, however Quepem police stated the alcohol test was once destructive.
Kadam stated that as in keeping with top courtroom directives, handiest 20 trucks will be allowed to ply in an hour to stop site visitors jams.
In the previous, the trucks followed a set regimen. They would halt at Tank, Ambaulim, and would start plying handiest after 8am when the kids have been within the college premises. Operations would halt again from 1pm to 2pm, college ultimate hours. Presently, alternatively, the trucks ply continuously from 7am to 7pm, leaving some voters agitated over the priority given to ore transportation over kids’s safety.
“The safety of our kids is at stake because of rash and negligent using,” stated Quepem the city resident Alwyn Menezes. Meanwhile, former Quepem municipal council chairperson Manuel Colaco threatened to start an agitation if due safety precautions don't seem to be enforced right through the morning and afternoon hours. He often known as on Quepem deputy collector, Rohit Kadam, and requested him to stop transportation between 7am to 8am and 1pm to 2pm. “The transportation system should also be streamlined for the safety of the general public,” he stated.
Kadam told IdealNews that he has issued instructions to site visitors mobile PI to straight away observe Supreme Court pointers for ore transportation. “I've steered them to allow ore trucks to ply handiest from 8am to 1pm and from 2pm to 6pm,” Kadam stated.
Colaco also identified to the federal government’s failure to start a mining corridor and even whole the land acquisition procedure for a similar. “Mining activities haven’t even started in complete swing, however trucks are being lined up on the roads, disrupting site visitors. We don’t know what's going to happen latter when mining resumes,” he stated.
On Friday night time, two mining trucks collided at Igramoll, Quepem, disrupting site visitors on the Quepem-Cuncolim road for almost four hours. Eye witnesses told IdealNews that both trucks, proceeding in reverse directions, have been being driven at top velocity, this regardless of having a velocity monitor installed. The impact of the collision was once such that the empty truck twisted and fell into the drain. Two pedestrians had a fortunate break out. Witnesses on the site stated the motive force of the empty truck was once inebriated, however Quepem police stated the alcohol test was once destructive.
Kadam stated that as in keeping with top courtroom directives, handiest 20 trucks will be allowed to ply in an hour to stop site visitors jams.
‘Quepem ore trucks ply at school hours, kids at risk’
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