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Sanitation A Mess In The City, the residents are all the more alarmed about the cleanliness issueBy Sumit Kumar, Section GN
With garbage dumps piling up every now and then at whatever little vacant space is available and drains full of stagnant water, the state of sanitation in the city is nothing to be proud of. But what takes the cake are the huge pits full of decaying garbage, and drain and sewer water that never get cleaned.
Many residential sectors are victim of this menace. Residents keep complaining but the authorities are least bothered. Now with two cases of dengue already being reported from the city the residents are all the , more alarmed about the cleanliness issue.  Two huge pits in Block F, Sector-51, have turned into ponds of dirty water The latest case that has come to light is of Sector 51, where two huge pits in Block F have turned into ponds of dirty water. And at the receiving end are the residents of three blocks of this sector, Blocks D, E and F, as also the villagers of Hoshiarpur. "These pits, filled with the drainage from the adjacent Hoshiarpur village, have turned an acre of land into a lake of dirty drain and sewer water. When it rains all the garbage flows out," says Sanjay Kumar, a resident. "We are under threat of an outbreak of epidemic. It is not just the smell that bothers us but the breeding of mosquitoes here that has made our life hell," adds another resident, Manju Shukla. "We just cannot open our windows as mosquitoes enter our homes," she says. Click on "Full Story" For More...
"It is the high time that the Noida Authority pays ur- gent attention to this ticking time bomb which will ex- plode very soon if left unattended," says Kumar.
"The NA didn't plan when it carved out sectors on the land acquired from the villages," says RWA general secretary Madan , Rai. "The development is haphazard and people are paying for it," he adds. "More so because there is little or no development work carried out in villages," he says. Sure enough, though Hoshiarpur has been declared an Ambedkar Village, the amount of development that has been carried out in this village is restricted to huge boards that proclaim the name of this village. "This place is a health hazard for us also, but things are beyond our control. It is the responsibility of the NA to clean up this area," says Mansukhlal of Hoshiarpur. The NA is awaiting the allotment of this land, for once it is allotted it will get cleared. That it is such a big health hazard doesn't bother the officials at the helm of affairs. "This is a low-lying area and hence it gets filled up with water. It cannot be cleaned. In fact, it is saved of the land sharks due to it be ing a pool of stagnant water," says NA Project Engineer (Public Health) who is in-charge of the area. Source: Hindustan Times, Live, Aug-01-2008
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