Panaji: To keep Goa’s beaches garbage-free and offer a memorable experience to the visitors, including tourists, the government appointed a new contractor M/s Ecostan Infra Pvt Ltd for providing comprehensive cleaning services on 51 beach stretches of the state from March 1 onwards for a period of five years.
“The contractor has been issued the work order to start the cleaning of beaches from March 1. The contractor is required to carry out beach cleaning activities from 6 am to 12 pm and from 4 pm to 8 pm,” said a senior tourism official.
The contractor is required to carry out manual cleaning, segregation, transportation of garbage from the beach stretches, approach roads, beach shacks, entrance of the beaches, among others by removing, collecting and stacking of waste like plastic, paper, packing, bottles, fruit waste, leaves, spoiled discarded goods, waste foods, carcasses of fish and stray animals, cluster of small dead fish, tar balls, oil/diesel dust, trade generated waste, wooden logs, roots and twigs of trees, sea vegetation waste, etc.
“The contractor will have to also carry out cleaning of the 122 approach roads that have been identified which lead to these beaches upto 100 metres from the beach entrance and deploy adequate number of labours for each of these approach roads. Additionally, the contractor shall also have to clean the approach roads with the help of two road sweeping machines,” the official said.
The segregated garbage at the designated segregation location shall be further transported to solid waste management plant (SWMP) at Saligao for North Goa beaches and to SWMP at Cacora for South Goa beaches.
“Presently, the contractor is undertaking manual cleaning of all the listed beaches. Presently, he has appointed 52 supervisors who will be responsible for overseeing and supervising the work of labourers deployed on the beaches,” the official said.
