People demand improving sewerage system

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Faulty sewerage lines and overflowing gutters are creating problems in various parts of the city, people complained on Friday.

The people of Johar Colony, Model Town, Garden Town, Bismillah Homes, Muradabad, Farooq Colony, Sultan Colony, Shamsher Town, Zafar Colony, Old city blocks, Kalyar Town, Cheema Colony have been affected the most.

The area dwellers said that no remedial measures have been taken by the authorities concerned despite lodging of complaints with the cantonment and the tehsil municipal administrations.

A resident of Bismillah Homes, Malik Sajid, told the news agency that streets in his area present the look of a pond, as the whole sewerage system had been blocked.

A spokesman for the Cantonment Board office said that clearing of sewerage pipelines was underway and vacuum machines had also been brought to the affected areas. He said that sewerage lines would soon be cleared.