Saligao's Illegal Piggery & Slaughter House - 2: complaint+video prompt joint site inspection

A combination of this complaint - signed by 240 residents of Donvaddo and Sonarbhatt - and the Video Volunteers film on the problem, led to a 3-way joint site inspection by the Health Officer, Primary Health Centre, Candolim; the Dept. of Animal Husbandry and the Sarpanch, VP Saligao.  Copies of the film were given to the Health Officer, Sarpanch, VP Saligao and local MLA.

The usual game of passing the buck stopped at the Sarpanch and it now rests with him to stop the illegal activity and implement the relevant laws and rules governing the keeping and slaughter of pigs in residential areas.  He will also have to implement the law governing garbage dumps and the burning of garbage, especially plastics in a residential area. 

The Health Officer cannot escape the immediate removal of all the health hazards connected with this illegal activity, and the burning of plastic garbage.

The Pollution Control Board will have to stop the burning of plastic garbage with its resultant air pollution as well as the seepage into the underground water table of the infected, putrefying and stinking blood, that rots in a pool along with the the urine, dung and entrails of the slaughtered pigs.65

The communities of Donvaddo and Sonarbhatt have suffered enough.  We hope that the 2 communities along with Sarpanch Eknath will work towards a win-win situation for them as well as the pig-rearing families.