Goa, Sept. 16 -- Over the years, Cuncolim Industrial Estate has been at the centre of several pollu tion-related controversies, and this time acting on a report submitted by the Mamlatdar of Salcete, the Deputy Collector and Sub-Divisional Magistrate (SDM), Salcete, has issued a conditional order against Quality Exports, a fish mill unit operating in the industrial estate, for allegedly discharging foul waste water and garbage outside the estate's compound wall, causing a serious public nuisance.

The SDM noted that wastewater ponds were detect ed outside the factory premises in Survey Nos 335/1, 335/11, 335/12 (part), 336/8 and 336/9 of Cuncolim. The sites which have since been filled with soil and mud were reportedly emanating a strong ...