Saligao: Taking awareness of the round in Guirim, Chairman of the Minister of Pramod Sawant on Thursday examined the area along with officials and said that short-term and long-term steps would be taken to resolve the problem.
He was accompanied by Mlaas Glenn Ticlo (Aldona), Jayesh Salgaonkar (Saligao) and Joshua d’Souza (Mapusa), members of Zilla Panchayat, Sarpanchs from neighboring villages, senior officer PWD, WRD and Agriculture.
“There is nothing wrong to say that some man-made problems,” said the ministerial head after seeing both sides of the highway flooded.
As a short-term size, Sawant said that he had instructed PWD and WRD to remove waterways.
He said that there were many factors for flooding, including mud disposal and debris by the contractor who carried out the work of highway expansion, filling in land by several people around him, in addition to heavy rains and tidal effects.
The minister’s chairman said he read the news report on flooding in Guirim.
Toi has highlighted this problem for the past three days, including the photo of the front page which shows that someone cannot distinguish between highways and fields.
The neighboring village was cut off with each other because of the flood.
While some locals say that the area is flooded every year during heavy rain, this time, the situation is far worse.
As part of the long-term steps, Sawant said he had directed the officers to conduct river inspections so Desi could be done to prevent future instances.
He also asked the Ministry of Agriculture to assess the damage caused by cultivators.
The minister’s chairman expressed regret for the inconvenience caused by people due to flooding.
“This is a water catchment area, so that water flows from Parra, Socorro and Guirim, and accumulates in this place.
Therefore, the river river tributary needs to be dredged.
This will help prevent flooding in this area,” Salgaonkar said, adding that he held Some meetings in the past to resolve this problem, including when he was a minister of port.
He also said that other reasons for flooding could be caused by charging illegal land.
There was an argument that was heated because the local population of Goldy questioned Saligao MLa over the flood in Junction Namoshi.
In the last two days heavy rainfall, roads in Guirim, including Jalan Stretching from Namoshi Junction to Guirim Panchayat had sunk.
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