Unsanitary conditions haunt residents at Kailash Nagar

Tribune News Service

Ludhiana, January 22

Residents of Kailash Nagar near Oswal Cancer Hospital are a harried lot due to the problem of overflowing sewers for past two months. They demand from the civic body to ensure cleaning of the choked sewers and provide them relief from unsanitary conditions.

The residents have placed bricks to pass through the road stretch, where stinking water is getting accumulated. A resident of street number 3.5 said, “We have been suffering due to poor sanitary conditions as sewers are badly overflowing outside our house for the past two months. We have made complaints to the civic body but the problem has not been resolved till date. We appeal to the higher authorities to take necessary steps to resolve the problem.”

Another resident of Kailash Nagar said, “It is difficult for us to step out of our house due to the accumulated stinking water. There are high chances of any disease outbreak if the conditions are not improved. The civic body team had reached the area yesterday but the problem was not resolved.”

Sumerbir Singh Grewal, SDO, MC, said when a road work was going on in the area and soil was dumped in the sewer line due to which the sewer system had got choked in two streets. “The sewer line will be made functional properly by tomorrow”, he said.

Rajinder Singh, Superintending Engineer, MC, said, “I will look into the matter and problem will be resolved soon.”