PANAJI: The state capital could soon have a new building to house the Corporation of the City of Panaji.
The Goa state urban development agency has tendered the project and work will begin behind the existing CCP building this year, commissioner Agnelo Fernandes said.
At an estimated cost of Rs 9.8 crore, the ground-plus-five structure is expected to be completed within 18 months. The cost includes the demolition of the existing structure, civil work including plumbing, landscaping, internal and external electrical, elevators, firefighting and piling for the basement.
Fernandes said that the work would be carried out in phases, and the existing CCP office would remain functional while work begins on other parts.
Also, the CCP will begin a stray cattle drive on Monday, and will take the stray cattle to gaushalas in Valpoi and Bicholim, Fernandes said.
“We want to keep our city and beaches clean. There is cow dung everywhere and whatever landscaping we have done at Miramar beach has been destroyed,” he said, adding that the corporation has got its vehicle to transport the cattle back from Dhyan foundation.
The corporation hasn’t succeeded in rehabilitating the beggars and homeless on the streets of the capital. “They are refusing to go to homes. Although food and shelter will be provided to them, they want to continue begging. It’s a very organised gang,” Fernandes said.
The corporation will also begin auctioning the abandoned vehicles at Campal ground. “We are doing an inventory of two- and four-wheelers before they are auctioned. At the same time, we will conduct a fresh survey of unclaimed and abandoned vehicles occupying space in the capital city,” he said.
The corporation has already identified around 40 such vehicles in and around the city and will intimate the owners before seizing them, he said.
“We will request owners to take them away to a safer place away from the streets,” he said.
