Abohar, March 7: The work to link slums with the sewage disposal system near Kandhwala Road officially began today.
The slums had stayed waterlogged for about two weeks due to incessant rain in 2014.
Sandeep Jakhar, former president, District Youth Congress, performed the ground-breaking ceremony at Rajiv Nagar as residents rejoiced at the hope that the water logging menace would end soon.
About a hundred houses had been damaged when the then Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal organised his maiden Sangat Darshan on the request of then Leader of Opposition Sunil Jakhar here on September 15, 2014.
The CM’s cavalcade had a tough time reaching the venue of the Sangat Darshan. Badal had promised to get the colony linked with a sewerage line and reconstruct potholed roads when the residents complained of water logging.
On November 19, 2015, Badal informed the CLP leader that he had directed the Local Bodies Department to take necessary steps to link Rajiv Nagar to the sewerage line and repair the roads there.
After few months, Municipal Council president Pramil Kalani (BJP) and SAD circle president Ashok Ahuja had separately performed the ‘muhurat’ ceremony for the work but not a single brick was laid, Councillor Mahipal Verma and other activists said.
Punjab Water Supply and Sewerage Board Sub-Divisional Engineer Harsharanjit Singh informed that 12-inch pipe would be laid over 400m. In neighbouring colonies, about 20 km length is to be covered by laying 8-inch and 10-inch pipes under the Amrut Yojana.
Source Tribune India
