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VASCO: Just 500m from the Mormugao Port Trust’s coal berths, two-and-a-half-year-old Abhishek hardly steps out of his house. Now, we have to spend again to clean the walls and paint it,” says a housewife.“We even clean the iron gate. It settles on food,” says Shaikh. But we don’t know how much of it we end up eating. When he does, he returns covered with coal dust.From furniture to food, Vasco residents have been fighting a battle in vain: To keep black soot out of their homes and lives.Despite protests, coal handling operations by a private company were under way in full swing at an MPT berth on TuesdayThese residents along the Sada headland, its plateau and other areas may have the best view of sea, river, harbor and the hills..