Sewage overflow complaints pour in from city areas

Tribune News Service

Bathinda, August 13

The sewerage system in the city, it seems, has completely collapsed with complaints of sewerage overflow and choked in different areas of the city pouring in the Municipal Corporation and the sewerage board on a daily basis for the past few days. On the other hand, the Triveni company, responsible for looking after the maintenance of sewerage, has not been able to fix these complaints.

Owing to non-fixing of complaints, the dirty water of the sewerage has been lying stagnant in various areas of the city. The dirty water is not only causing problems to people, but also creating pollution.

It is pertinent to mention that for the past many years, the sewerage in the city was supervised by the Punjab Water Supply and Sewerage Board, but for the last two years it has been maintained by the private company, Triveni. Since the day the company has taken maintenance of the sewerage in its hands, the sewerage system has been crumbling in the city.

All councillors are seeing the mayor and the commissioner about the problem of sewerage. At the same time, residents of the city are also complaining about the sewerage on the toll free number of the corporation and the toll number of the company.

Despite this, the problem remains the same. Even the councillors of Ward Nos. 20 and 22 have written to Mayor Balwant Rai Nath, demanding the cleaning of their blocked sewerage. But till date it has not been resolved.

Not only this, even complaints of the main sewerage blockage on the old police station road have not been addressed by the company till date.

Perturbed shopkeepers have warned of gheraoing the corporation office if it is not addressed at the earliest.

Now there is a problem of sewerage and overflow in the streets of Guru Nanak Pura Mohalla, Hajura Kapura’s streets and the Power House Road.

In many parts of Guru Nanak Pura Mohalla, the dirty water of the sewerage has been stagnant for the past many days. People have no option but to cross the road through the dirty water.

Even the sewerage of street number 6 of Hazura Kapura Colony has been lying blocked and ward councillor Rajinder Singh Sidhu has lodged a complaint with MCB sanitation group regarding this.

Similarly, Radhe Shyam Bansal, a resident of the city, also complained to the corporation about the blockage of the sewerage of the roads of the Power House Road and sent a complaint to the corporation for cleaning it.

It is worth mentioning that the city’s sewerage was maintained by the Punjab Water Supply and Sewerage Board and they are paying Rs 14 crore per year to Triveni company for getting this work done.