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CIB Colony in Malakpet reels under unhygienic conditions

Staff Reporter

Untreated water flowing from Chanchalguda and Nalgonda crossroads from underground pipes is making life miserable for residents

MURKY AFFAIR: Overflowing drainage water at CIB Quarters in Malakpet. - Photo: G.Krishnaswamy

HYDERABAD: It is hell on earth for City Improvement Board (CIB) Colony residents at New Malakpet. After the problem of garbage-strewn roads haunting the residents for the past couple of years, it is now the turn of overflowing drainage water to pose health hazards to them.

Untreated water flowing from Chanchalguda and Nalgonda crossroads from underground pipelines is making life miserable for residents, especially for those residing near MCH Volleyball and Basketball Ground.

The locality has several dairy farms, which find manholes the best place to dump their waste. And to add to the plight of the residents, the underground drainage pipeline here is narrow, which is one reason for the constant overflow.

Worn out pipes

"Underground pipelines were laid here during the Nizam's era and ever since there has been no effort from the authorities to replace them with wider ones. We have been suffering from these bad conditions for almost three years now and the matter was repeatedly complained to the Hyderabad Metro Water Supply and Sewerage Board officials and even to the Chief Minister but there is no respite," says New Malakpet Residents Welfare Association Joint Secretary Abul Haseeb.

Locals say walking through this locality is nothing short of an acrobatic manoeuvre.

Pedestrians, in fact, are made to hop rather than walk normally. With the roads transforming into a pool of sewage, motorists too have their own share of woes.

"All the authorities do is come here and inspect the situation and nothing lese. If they cannot replace the existing pipeline they can at least lay a 100-metre parallel pipeline from the MCH Ground to the adjacent Yakutpura nala to curb the menace," says M.A.Azeem Khan, an advocate residing in the colony.

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