LARKANA:The residents of Larkana’s various localities, including Kausar Mill, Hyderi Mill, Hussaini Muhalla, Ayoob Colony and Siddiqui Colony are littered with sewage water due to negligence of local municipal authorities.
The Disposal Machine of the area is dysfunctional since last several weeks and overflowing sewerage has inundated all the streets of these Muhallas of Union Committee 10 and 11. Little kids are unable to go to their schools whereas elders are unable to go to mosques to offer prayers and almost all the residents have confined themselves to their houses.
They only go out for performing duty to earn livelihood. There seems nobody to take care of thousands of the citizens who have been raising their voice against this highhandedness by the sanitation and municipal staff. The residents held protest demo and told this Scribe that sewage water has entered into their houses making their lives miserable and approximately 3 feet poisonous water has inundated almost all streets of these localities causing pollution and environmental hazards.
Social welfare activists and residents including Abdul Waheed Abbasi, Syed Sajad Ali Shah, Abdul Khalique Shah, Mumtaz Buriro, Hafiz Noor Ahmed Bhatti and others said on Saturday that as many as nine localities around Kausar Mill area have been very seriously affected by the overflowing sewerage gutters which have inundated all the roads rendering citizens helpless. They said their constant protests and sending of applications to the Mayor for getting repaired Disposal Machine or its replacement altogether has fallen on deaf and dumb ears and Larkana Mayor Aslam Shaikh has done nothing so far to get rid of the menace of overflowing drains as if people of these areas are not living within the limits of Larkana Municipal Corporation (LMC). They said that standing sewage water shows that we are still living in stone-age era without provision of fundamental necessities and facilities.
They urged PPP Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah and other relevant higher authorities to take notice of the issues confronted by the people of these neglected areas and get them resolved immediately otherwise, according to them, their kids will be infected with deadly diseases like Hepatitis for which only concerned authorities will be responsible.
After protest, PPP UC-11 president Ali Asghar Abbasi accompanied by Hanif Brohi. Aftab Abbasi visited the affected areas and assured the resident that soon Disposal Machine will be replaced and broken sides of drains will be repaired. They further claimed that road will be built from Faisal Building to Khatyan Hotel but residents termed it political announcement.