People living in houses numbered 179 to 182 have been facing this serious problem for the last 20 days. Their houses and the road outside have turned into putrid drains, posing a serious health risk to everybody.
The residents of Khirki village in south Delhi's Malviya Nagar are a troubled lot these days. The reason being the construction of a road on top of manholes, which has blocked the let-outs for sewage. As a result, flooding of toilets and drains inside houses as well as overflowing of sewage on roads have become a common occurrence. While people continue to grapple with this extremely unhygienic situation, complaints to the local MLA have borne no fruit yet.
People living in houses numbered 179 to 182 have been facing this serious problem for the last 20 days. Their houses and the road outside have turned into putrid drains, posing a serious health risk to everybody.
"Drains and toilets are overflowing, and we are living with this nasty smell of sewage. Cockroaches and other insects are breeding in this water. This is nauseating. We have been complaining about this for long but no action has been taken," resident Astha Saini said.
The sewer lines in the locality were constructed in 1980 and were originally meant for single-storey buildings. Since then, the population has increased four-fold but the sewers have not been rebuilt accordingly. In addition to this, construction of the road has blocked the let-outs for sewage.
"The roads get flooded with sewage water and litter, especially in the morning. It becomes difficult to get out of the house," another resident Sanjiv said.
The Residents Welfare Association (RWA) has filed several complaints with the sewer department but to no avail. In fact, the RWA president has sent letters to MLA Somnath Bharti in this regard.
The MLA then sent the municipal cars, thrice, to clean the sewers in the locality but the workers could not identify the source of the problem. Instead of breaking the road constructed on top of the manholes and clearing the let-outs for proper flow of sewage, the civic workers used pressure pipes inside the drains and manholes causing over-flooding of rainwater drains exacerbating the problem further.
Despite repeated attempts, the MLA could not be contacted.
"We chose Bharti but now he is acting like a celebrity. Let alone do any work, he does not even answer the phone himself," said Satish Kaushik, RWA General Secretary.
"I have called the Delhi Jal Board a number of times, informing them about our situation. But no action has been taken so far," KC Rana, RWA General Secretary, said.
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