Indian Express 14.10.2010
Filth cleaned from Buddha Nallah lies on the banks
Raakhi Jagga Tags : Buddha Nallah, municipal corporation Posted: Thu Oct 14 2010, 05:46 hrs
It needs to be mentioned that a sum of Rs 1.84 crore had been released by the deputy commissioner in June to the drainage department to clean all the 18 drains of Ludhiana after Samrala villages were flooded due to a breach in the choked distributor. Of this amount, a part was spent on cleaning the 17 km stretch of Buddha Nallah downstream, which is outside the MC limits. When Newsline visited the site, heaps of filth, both industrial and domestic waste, were spotted on the nallah side near villages Partapsinghawala, Kherabet, Balloke etc. The heaps lay there the entire monsoon, and it is possible that a part of it may have again gone inside the nallah. But even now, the drainage team is not in a mood to lift this filth.
A senior official in the Drainage department said: “The filth was left to dry on the banks; moreover, it can be seen in the areas where no population exists. We cleaned the nallah with the special funds released, but those were not sufficient for picking the filth.”
DC Rahul Tiwari was shocked to hear that the filth is still lying on the banks of the nallah: “It dries in few days time only and hence it should have been picked during the cleanliness drive only. I will ask the drainage team to get the area cleaned.”
