Roads dug up, officials point fingers

Many localities in Gaganpahad, Katedan, Shastripuram, Mylardevpally, Hassannagar and Budvel do not have dedicated sewerage lines.

Residents here, thus, depend on septic tanks or let out waste through stormwater lines.

The Rajendranagar Circle comprises four municipal divisions — Attapur, Shivrampally, Mylardevpally and Rajendranagar — with a population of 2.5 lakh.

Dr K.S. Hassan, president of Golden Heights Colony, Rajendranagar, where the digging work for the drainage system is on since 20 days, said, “The colony is more than six years old, but not every house has a dedicated sewerage line. For the ones that have them, there is no ultimate outlet. In areas where the drainage works have been completed, the contractors have done such a bad job that property owners have had to spend again on linking the house pipeline to the same drain.”

In fact, household waste from many neighbourhoods in Hassa- nnagar is released into the nearby Mir Alam Tank. People in many colonies, except where welfare associations ensure door-to-door clearance of garbage, are forced to live in unhygienic conditions. Laxmiguda, Hassannagar, Budvel, Suleiman Nagar, Mir Momin Pahadi and Hyderguda are the worst hit.

Mohd Adil of Hasannagar said, “We do not have a systematic drainage system. Four years back they laid the drainage pipeline, but in a haphazard manner. The drainage pipeline has been installed above the tap connection and several times, owing to digging, both pipes have been damaged and the waters got mixed. There is no ultimate outlet and in case of heavy rains the whole colony will be submerged in drain water.”

While the tussle between the GHMC and Water Board is still on with regard to the Sewage Board digging newly-laid roads, the GHMC says the Sewage Board should first issue NOCs for the areas where works have been completed, so that the GHMC can take up road repair works.

Experts from the Administrative Staff College say sewerage systems typically reduce diarrhoea incidence by about 30 per cent

As per the 2011 Census, 48.9 houses in India have no drainage facility