In view of government’s decision to hand over the land at Bainguinim to the Corporation of the City of Panaji (CCP) to set up a solid waste management project, Cumbharjua MLA Pandurang Madkaikar has said that he would convene a meeting with the Old Goa panchayat members and the committee members to decide on the future course of action.

The meeting has been convened in a panchayat hall on Saturday at 10 am. It may be recalled that in a statement to the Herald few days ago, Madkaikar had stated that when the State government had started land acquisition process two years back, the Old Goa panchayat had filed a writ petition against the proposal and the matter was pending in the High Court and therefore the matter was sub-judice.
Madkaikar had also stated that even Advocate General Subodh Kantak had stated that the State government was thinking of an alternate site and was not going ahead with the site at Bainguinim, which was on record in the high court when the matter had come up.
It may be also noted that in the last assembly session, when Madkaikar and St Cruz MLA Victoria Fernandes raised the issue of Bainguinim site, the chief minister had agreed to constitute a house committee to look after a garbage treatment site and accordingly a committee was constituted. After house committee was constituted, in the first meeting itself the committee had decided not to go ahead with the Bainguinim site. At the same time, it was also decided to have two sites, one in North and the other in South.
Some residents are of the view that when house committee had not given any report to the government, then how the State government can decide on the matter.