Andhra Pradesh - Guntur   

Elite colonies only in name

By Ramesh Susurla

The dumping yard amidst residential locality in the second division of the Guntur Municipal Corporation needs to be closed immediately.

GUNTUR, JAN. 8. Drinking water shortage and lack of proper drainage is the hallmark of the second division in Guntur Municipal Corporation comprising of colonies inhabited by the city's elite. Though they were developed as a model satellite colonies three decades ago, water gets stagnated on the roads and drain water does not have proper outlet in Ravindra Nagar, while the by-lanes in Syamala Nagar are yet to be laid.

While residents blame GMC officials for not taking up their cause, lack of initiative from the residents and their welfare association is being cited as the cause for the neglect.

The water pressure is very poor in summer and majority of the areas do not get sufficient water even through tankers.

A ward with a good number of cement concrete and blacktop roads it has good sanitary conditions, thanks to the frequent lifting of garbage from majority of the main roads and once in two days from the interior locations.

However, the Pattabhipuram approach road is the most congested with haphazard parking in front of a number of shops that have come up in the residential locality.

Park suggested

The old dumping yard (near glucose factory) has been allocated for a shadikhana, but nothing has come up on it for years together, the residents argue. They suggest conversion of the place into a park so that there was space for children to play and elders to sit. With the construction of the swimming pool a lot of free space was lost.

During the former commissioner, Praveen Prakash's time internal roads were proposed under the Janmabhoomi scheme with 33 per cent contribution from the residents, but with a number of plots remaining vacant none came forward and the residents' association also had taken interest only up to 5th lane in Syamala Nagar.

The ward has the Road Transport Authority's office bringing a number of vehicles for inspection and registration and there has been a demand to shift it to Autonagar, which has not materialised so far. A crematorium, though, was developed in GMC land.

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