Chaka Chak Goa kicked off its campaign for a cleaner Goa with a road
cleaning drive in Betalbatim by NSS students of Carmel College and
Chowgule College in association with Betalbatim Panchayat and
Betalbatim Civic & Consumer Forum on Republic day. The momentum has
been kept up with final year students from Sodra Latins Gymnasium,
Stockholm on an exchange visit to Goa, teaming up with their
counterparts from Chowgule College, Margao, under the leadership of
garbage consultant Clinton Vaz and Forum convenor Xavier Cota and
visiting several households in Betalbatim on the following Sunday and
Tuesday to instruct villagers on how to segregate their garbage and
obtain optimum results from their composting pots. In addition to
carrying out surveys, they also distributed bottles of EM. A heartening
feature was the logistic support and actual participation of ward
panchas in the drive along with members of the NGO. Sarpanch Miguel
Pereira pledged the panchayat’s unflinching support for the continuing
drive, by setting up boards and recycling bins at the beaches and
subsidising and distributing composters to villagers.
Xavier Cota
Convenor
Betalbatim Civic & Consumer Forum
Mob: 9850101376
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