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Take your garbage home, Goa village tells tourists
Wednesday October 24, 2012 02:51:07 PM,
IANS
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Panaji:
A Goa beach
village now wants tourists to carry back the garbage they generate
while having a ball on the beach.
Betalbatim, a southern village 40 km from Panaji, this week passed
a resolution saying tourists who picnic or party on its beach
would be given plastic bags to stuff their garbage in and take
back.
"The gram sabha (village assembly) has resolved that garbage
generated by tourists should be taken back," village head
Esperance Fernandes told IANS over telephone.
Goa's overcrowded beaches and countryside have seen garbage piling
up, with the state failing to put in place an effective garbage
disposal mechanism.
Beer bottles, empty tetra packs and potato wafer packets are
ubiquitous. Assorted dry waste litters the beach, left behind by
irresponsible tourists and locals.
Neither the coastal village panchayats nor the tourism department
is equipped to safely dispose of the garbage collected by
sweepers.
Esperance Fernandes believes that the move by the village
panchayat would help minimise the filth on the beach as well as
set an example for other coastal village panchayats.
"We will be employing labourers on the beach to help picnickers
and beach-goers collect the garbage they generate and pack it in
plastic bags. The garbage collection can be taken care of, but the
disposal will have to be carried out by those who visit the
beach," Esperance said.
The resolution was passed by an overwhelming majority.
Betalbatim village, with a resident population of nearly 4,000, is
one of the quieter beaches in Goa although it is home to some of
the top beach resorts as well as what some consider the mecca of
Goan crab curry, Martins Corner. Star cricketer Sachin Tendulkar
is a regular visitor here.
Garbage is one of the most contentious issues facing the tourism
department along with overcrowding of its beaches.
Tourism Minister Dilip Parulekar said the litter on the beaches
prompted his department to go in for a mechanised beach cleaning
option.
"By December, when the biggest number of tourists starts to come
in, we should be in a position to clean beaches with machines,"
Parulekar said.
Goa's beaches annually attract nearly 2.6 million tourists, of
which half a million are foreigners.
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