Mormugao Port and Railway Workers (MPRW) Union has given a call to all the stakeholders , including the staff of MPT, to try to follow and implement the recommendations of Goa State Pollution Control Board lest the business, ultimately, at the port would be affected which, in turn, is bound to affect the interests of the workers. In a press meet on Saturday in the MPT guest house at Sada, Mr. A.J.Peters, President, MPRW, said: “Every body is to be blamed for the rise in pollution. Initially authorities were negligent about safety measures as business was going on smoothly, but now the Goa State Pollution Control Board (GSPCB) recommendations should be complied with”. He also suggested that they might request “GSPCB to deploy their officers at the loading and unloading point at MPT berths. This will help the monitoring process”. He admitted that pollution control measures were not taken seriously; however, he added: “MPT has taken the blame on itself unnecessarily, as it is the responsibility of the company who gets in coal to clean the berth after every stock is cleared”. But he also made a remark that disturbs: “A time has come when 2,600 MPT workers will have to come on the road as the salaries and pensions would be stopped”.
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