Hyderabad: Officials launch sanitary drive at Bismillah Colony

Rajendranagar: Taking cognisance of the report in The Hana India, theJalpally municipal staff finally swung into action and launched a sanitation drive at Bismillah Colony in Ward 5.

The Hans India in its report 'Bismillah Colony wallows in utter civic neglect', on January 13 highlighted the issue of unhygienic environment prevailing in Bismillah Colony due to lack of sanitary services.

It reported that messy streets filled with overflowing sewage, cart track roads, mounds of scattered garbage and pockets of sludge in every street are common in the colony. Years of neglect have turned the area into another forlornly slum on the city outskirts with multiple civic issues. It is against this background that the Jalpally civic officials geared up on Monday and conducted a special sanitary drive employing the staff.

Apart from the colony, neighbouring areas such as Haroon Colony, Sayeed Colony and Subhan Colony in the ward too are seen searing under civic problems. As the area stands as extreme slum habitation most families are daily wage labourers and eke out a living through hard work.

Welcoming the move by the civic officials, Syed Asif, a resident, said, "This has come as a sigh of relief for many locals who feel sad about the prevailing unhygienic state of affairs in the colony. Hope the sanitary officials won't play truant next day and continue such drives continue in future to make the area neat and tidy."

Argued Shaikh Faisal, another resident, "at last, the civic officials display some gung-ho attitude and square off the Bismillah Colony area to clear heaps of filth scattered all the way on streets, by-lanes and roads. However, there is a need to put more efforts to ensure proper roads, sewage and sanitation, which have not been addressed for years."