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=Dapot-Mashem=
==2019: bus shelter==
[https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/goa/tired-of-waiting-for-bus-shelter-students-build-their-own-out-of-plastic-bottles/articleshow/72175786.cms  Albert Fernandes, Nov 22, 2019: ''The Times of India'']


POINGUINIM: Waiting for the bus, drenched and shivering, during the worst monsoon they have experienced in their lives, this project was a brainwave born out of pure necessity for the group of students from Canacona’s Satyavati Soiru higher secondary school, who have built from scratch a bus shelter out of discarded plastic bottles near their school in Dapot-Mashem. 

After years of waiting for the government to install a shelter at the bus stop to give commuters someplace to duck out of the scorching afternoon sun and monsoon rains, the lanky 16-year-olds decided to take matters into their own hands. As science students, they went a step further, by deciding to also make a dent in the plastic pollution menace plaguing the state— their shelter consists of drinking water and soft-drink bottles that were littering their villages. 

“This was an opportunity for us to make a statement of protest against the authorities who have failed to build us a bus shelter, as well as to utilise discarded plastic,” said Anish Faldesai, one of the students who built the shelter. “We also wanted to spread awareness about the harmful effects of plastic for the environment,” said Aloysius Monteiro, another member of the group. 

“Plastic garbage will reduce only if society at large stopped using and generating it,” added Vaibhav Metri, who, along with classmates Vinit Painginkar, Om Powar, Sahil Sudhir and Kanay Velip, participated in the project. 

Science teacher Chandralekha Mestri, under whose guidance the Class XI students have also made pet-bottle shoe racks, chairs and dustbins for their school, apart from the quirky bus stop, said that she and her students noticed that a lot of single-use plastic was being dumped without segregation all around the taluka, and not sent for recycling. “We decided to create a bus shelter for the students and locals of Dapot by stringing them together, which proved to be a cheap, light and durable building material,” she added. 

“This also gave students the chance to put to practical use, the theory lessons taught to them in the classroom,” she pointed out. When the students’ efforts were brought to the notice of Loleim sarpanch Shailesh Pagi, he said that the road was “likely to be taken up for improvement by the government”, and that the students should “take the local authorities’ permission first, for any developmental activities”.