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.”