All eyes are focussed on the visit of Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar to the city on Tuesday, as Navelim villagers are looking forward to a solution to their garbage woes after Margao Municipal Council refused to accept waste from the village. On the eve of Parrikar’s visit, the Fisheries Minister and Navelim MLA Avertano Furtado said he is hopeful that the Chief Minister would work out a way to solve the problem facing Navelim village and the entire constituency. “Why can’t the Margao Municipal Council accommodate our waste at Sonsodo when Navelim villagers have been liberal in accepting the city’s sewage for years now despite the fact that the sewage treatment plant has polluted river Sal, causing nuisance to the villagers,” Avertano said. “For the past three months, I had been after the Margao Municipal Chairperson Arthur D’Silva to accommodate our daily waste, which would not be more than one truck load. Villagers were upset with the MMC resolution not to open doors of Sonsodo for Navelim and other villages for the moment. That’s the reason why they stopped the Sirvodem Sewage Treatment plant on Thursday,” he said. Replying to a question, he said that Navelim villagers will chalk out the future of action if the talks end in a deadlock, but hastened to add that the Chief Minister would work out a solution acceptable to the villagers and the Margao Municipal Council. MMC Chairperson Arthur D’Silva is on record stating that the civic body would think of opening Sonsodo for outside waste only when waste collection and disposal in the city are fully streamlined.