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We have made an appeal to the pollution control board that the fire was not precisely on the KTC bus stand, but on a stretch of land near the bus stand. Panaji: The state-run Kadamba Transport Corporation Limited (KTCL) was recently slapped with a penalty of Rs 25,000 by the Goa State Pollution Control Board following complaints of waste being openly burnt at Patto. This stretch of land belongs to the transport department,” KTCL assistant engineer, G P Naik said.The location of this fire was reported at the interstate bus parking area. “We are yet to hear from them.” he said. This is the end point of the Panaji bus stand, near the EDC building.Sources from KTCL’s Panaji depot informed that burning of fire is a rampantly occurring violation, despite their attempts to discourage people from doing so.“We have often physically gone and put out fires using our water tanker..