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Goa looks to PM Narendra Modi's Varanasi as model for waste management
Updated On: 22 October, 2019 07:23 PM IST | | IANS
Waste management has emerged as a key issue in Goa, with the state travel and tourism industry facing flak on account of mismanagement of garbage

Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Picture/Twitter IANS
Grappling with the politically sensitive issue of garbage management in South Goa district, the Goa government wants to seek inspiration from Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Lok Sabha constituency of Varanasi and the Delhi government, in order to to finalise technology to dispose waste in South Goa's Margao town.
Speaking to reporters after a meeting of the high powered committee appointed to address the issue of management of the state's biggest garbage dump at Sonsoddo in South Goa, which has divided political opinion, Garbage Management Minister Michael Lobo said that the Goa government was looking to set up three alternative bio-machination units on the lines of those existing in Delhi and Varanasi to treat the garbage collected daily.
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