DMC officials apprised of poor sanitation

Tribune News Service

Dehradun, August 5

Uttarakhand Pradesh Congress Committee (UPCC) senior vice-president Suryakant Dhasmana, along with a team of health officials of the Dehradun Municipal Corporation (DMC), visited various wards of the city here today.

The health officials were apprised about lack of sanitation and chocked drains in different colonies of the city.

The team visited Govindgarh, Gandhi Gram, Patelnagar (West), Indira Nagar and Mohit Nagar in the Cantt Assembly constituency.

The activists accompanying the team expressed annoyance over the heaps of garbage and poor sanitation in the area.

The team found sewer lines to 143 houses not connected to the main sewage in Patelnagar (West). The garbage was not being collected properly in Gandhi Gram and the MDDA

Colony. Sewage was overflowing in Pacific Housing Society in Mohitnagar, while garbage was scattered and lying on the road near a private school.

The activists lamented that water logging had become a perennial problem due to chocked drains in the city. They demanded that door-to-door garbage collection system be implemented properly in different colonies. They threatened to hold protests if the DMC did not take steps to improve sanitation in the city.