A Goa beach village now wants tourists to carry back the garbage they generate while having a ball on the beach. Betalbatim, a 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 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 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.
Mr. 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,” Mr. Fernandes said.
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