Residents in the area have urged the civic authorities to create awareness about a clean neighbourhood
By-lanes and house-gullies are a prominent feature of buildings in the Fort area. Many residents and shopkeepers tend to throw their garbage in these 'house-gullies', which are narrow, causing drainage pipes to get blocked and consequently overflow. The only respite they had was after the Ganpati festival when the civic authorities cleaned up the house-gullies, but there has been no permanent solution to this menace.
The residents of the area want the authorities to create awareness on clean house-gullies and its importance among those who do not care about cleanliness, and throw garbage at night.
"We feel authorities and may be even the media should highlight more about this issue," said Theresa Pinto, a resident of Modi Street in the Fort area. According to residents, dumping of garbage, bottles, bags and other disposable items in the house-gullies has affected their lives in several ways. They say that there are hundreds of house-gullies with a number of them sharing narrow space with three to four buildings.
"Firstly there are sewer lines in house-gullies. They get choked and break. If we want to have them cleaned up, people do not want to do that because there is already garbage over it," said Jagdish Kular, another Syed Abdul Barelvi Road resident of the area. Residents said that finding people who throw garbage is difficult as habitual offenders also throw garbage in the night when there is noone watching. "Sometimes so much garbage is thrown at one go that there is a loud thumping sound.
We sometimes fear that something has collapsed," said Mehernosh Bharucha, who lives with an aged mother, and complains of getting disturbed at night.
"In my building, the water tank is adjacent to the house-gully. There is always a risk of water getting contaminated due to that. Rodents are also a big problem because people throw garbage," said Irene Fernandes, another resident.
AWAITING SOLUTION
- They only respite they had was after the Ganpati festival when the civic authorities cleaned up the house-gullies, but there has been no permanent solution.
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