Vasco: Mormugao MLA Sankalp Amonkar on Tuesday lashed out at Vedanta company for handling coal at mooring Dolphin Berth at Mormugao Port Trust.
Amonkar said that the Goa State Pollution Control Board is hand in gloves with the coal handling companies have extended the permission to handle coal at Dolphin till 2023 despite CM assuring in the house that coal will not be handled post 2020.
Amonkar assures to raise the issue of coal pollution in the upcoming Assembly session and has warned of mass agitation with hundreds of people to stop coal operation in the port if action is not initiated by authorities.
He said that CM had assured to reduce coal handling by 50 percent but instead the Government has planned double tracking to make Goa a coal hub.
