Margao: Stink, filth, foul smell, animal bones, and carcass, besides thermocol, and dry waste. Indeed, the SGPDA mega fish, vegetable, fruit, and meat market complex is plagued by unprecedented unhygienic conditions, raising questions over the existence of any authority to cap the nuisance and save the citizens and shoppers from a health hazard. Tonnes of dry and thermocol waste welcomes visitors every day when they drive down the mega market complex for shopping.
The waste seemed to have piled up and unattended for days now leaving shoppers to wonder whether the market falls under the jurisdiction of none of the authorities, be it the SGPDA, Margao Municipal Council, Health department and the Collectorate. Ground Reality The ground reality is that the SGDPA office headed by Member Secretary Sheikh Ali is situated right at the market complex, while the office of the district Collector is located just a few meters away. The Margao Municipal vehicles take the round of the waste every day, but the waste lying around the market complex is not collected by the garbage vehicles on the ground the waste is not segregated.
Fashion designer Verma D’Mello cried foul over the pathetic conditions in the PDA market. “Local citizens come here for shopping. Even foreigners visit the market to shop for their requirements.
The market, however, stinks and it stinks badly. This can be had for health. We will soon have the monsoons setting in and the pathetic situation offers a perfect ground.