Sewage overflow a health hazard for Beant Singh Nagar residents

Tribune News Service

Bathinda, September 13

Residents of Beant Singh Nagar are a harassed lot as the town has been lacking in basic facilities, infrastructure and development. Sadly, the Municipal Corporation seems to have closed their eyes to the problems being faced by the residents.

During a visit to Beant Singh Nagar, Bathinda Tribune found that the whole residential area stinks. Even the stagnant sewage overflow on roads as well as near houses was found to be carrying algae. Moreover, the garbage, which has not been lifted by MC employees for the past many days, is stinking.

The residents of the area allege that despite lodging many complaints to mend the sewage overflow and lift the garbage from the residential area to the Municipal Corporation, no steps have been taken so far by the authorities concerned. Even due to the sewage overflow in the whole residential area the potable water which comes to their houses also seen mixed with the sewage dirty water.

Puran Singh, Mohalla Committee Chaudhary, said, “If the health department carries out free check-up of people of this area. I am 100 per cent sure that more than half of the population suffer from dreadful diseases like malaria and dengue.” Recently, a woman died of malaria in the area, he added.

Neelam Kumari, a student, said, “We have heard that people are being issued challans if mosquito larva is detected near their homes. The streets of Beant Singh Nagar are waterlogged and are a perfect place for mosquito breeding. What the authorities concerned have to say on it.”

Mayor Balwant Rai Nath assured that the problem of sewage overflow at Beant Singh Nagar would be solved.