The Indian Express         25.06.2013

Supersuction sewerage cleaning begins

While Mayor Harcharan Singh Gohalwaria inaugurated the work in ward number 73 on Monday evening, SAD MLA (Ludhiana south) Balwinder Singh Bains organised a separate event in the morning in ward number 75 to tell the residents about the project. However, it was during the Mayor's event in the evening that the actual work started with the Delhi-based company beginning the sewerage cleaning through supersuction method.

Talking to Ludhiana Newsline, Mayor Harcharan Singh Gohalwaria, who inaugurated the project on GT Road near Hanuman Mandir, said, "In the first phase of Rs 2.34 crore project, we have started with cleaning of a 1.8-km stretch from Hanuman Mandir to Eve Line Industries. This stretch is costing MC Rs 54 lakh."

Asserting that the stretch would take almost a month to be completed, he said, "Industrialists from the area like Campa Cola Chowk and surrounding areas met him many times with their demand to solve sewerage problem and thus this supersuction will bring a great relief to the sewerage problem in the area."

Asked if he was aware of the programme organised by MLA Balwinder Singh Bains in ward number 75, he said, "I heard about some programme but I don't think it was related to supersuction system in anyway."

He said once this stretch was cleaned successfully, other sewerage lines would be recognised for cleaning.

Explaining the system, he said that machines used in process would push the material in the sewerage which was not possible through manual labour and thus would make sewerage cleaner.

While MLA Balwinder Singh Bains, from SAD, was not available for comment, councillor Sarabjit Singh Garcha, who is too from the SAD and in whose ward (75) Bains held an event, said: "We held our programme near Dhandari Kalan Old bridge and MLA told people about the supersuction system which will clean the sewerage."