KARACHI: City roads and streets littered with garbage
By Our Staff Reporter
KARACHI, Nov 25: Several roads and streets of different localities of the city are heavily littered with garbage and filthy material, creating ugly scene and unhygienic conditions.
The most affected localities where one can see heaps of garbage include Federal B’ Areas Block 14, a portion of the main Jehangir Road, Mohammad Bin Qasim Road (formerly known as Burnes Road), Sharae Iraq, Ashrafia ground of North Nazimabad’s Block D, the so-called green belt that bifurcates Lines Area with PECHS Block 2 and the vicinity of Karimabad’s Govt Delhi School.
The residents of the affected localities complained that since the sanitary staff had developed the habit of torching garbage they seldom bothered to dispose of it on a regular basis. “Whenever garbage is put on fire, the environment of our localities get suffocated, forcing them to close their doors and windows,” they added.
Visiting different localities of the city one gets the impression as if health workers of different towns had stopped disposing of garbage from dust-bins and roadsides.
People residing near FB Area’s Taleemi Bagh complained that on the one hand garbage often keep on trickling down from two dust-bins which are placed near Jamia Masjid Falah and the councillor’s office of Union Council-5 and, on the other sewage water often gushing out from choked gutters often remain stagnant on the nearby street.
Mentioning the complaints they lodged with the concerned officials of UC-5 have, so far, remain unheeded, they said that it seemed that even the senior officials of the Gulberg Town were least interested in getting removed the garbage from the road.
A perturbed resident of the locality said that although the people visiting the nearby Taleemi Bagh had no choice but to pass through the filthy road, the concerned officials were not taking measures to remove the garbage.
A visit to Jehangir Road showed that garbage and other filthy material often remain scattered over its pavements, particularly near the garbage dumping sites, thereby forcing the pedestrians to take the risk of walking on the busy road.
People residing in Jehangir Quarters apprehend that since the locality’s sewerage nullah is without slabs at a number of places one might fall into it as the locality often remains dark owing to the faulty street lights.
Moreover, people residing on either side of a green belt bifurcating Lines Area with PECHS Block 2 complained that an stinking atmosphere often prevailed in their area, mainly because the green belt which usually remained filled with garbage and filthy material was not cleaned for weeks by the sanitary staff.
People residing in the Federal B’ Area’s Block 6 also complained that stinking atmosphere had been prevailing in and around an amenity plot, near Masjid-i-Ibrahim owing to heaps of garbage that often remained littered all along the boundary walls of the plot and on the street leading to the mosque.
Heaps of garbage and a large quantity of polythene bags could be seen on the concrete slabs of a storm-water drain, situated in the middle of a road, near Karimabad’s Meena Bazaar.
Similarly, people in Burnes Road also complained of stinking atmosphere as not only its narrow streets but even the main Sharea Liaquat is often littered with garbage and other filthy material.
