HYDERABAD, July 26: Rain water drainage operation seems to have been delayed here by the authorities concerned with the result that several areas of the city still remain flooded with rain and gutter water.

The residents of three talukas of Hyderabad— City, Latifabad and Qasimabad— continue to face filthy conditions coupled with health hazards following incessant rains that began on July 6.

The rain-emergency plan chalked out by the Water and Sanitation Agency (Wasa) has proved to be an exercise in futility as residents of different areas are taking to streets almost daily to protest against the agency for failing to drain out rain and gutter water.

Wasa has, however, linked the rain emergency plan with the availability of funds.

The situation has become complicated even further on account of incomplete work of the Hyderabad Development Package announced by the former Sindh governor Mohammedmian Soomro and the Greater Hyderabad Sewerage Project.

Rain water has entered houses in the Kutchi Abadis and different localities such as Railway Colony, Noorani Basti, Sehrish Nagar, Nusrat Colony-11 and 12.

The situation in the City taluka is relatively better as its open drain system is disposing rain water, except for few areas where water is standing due to potholes on main roads.

Although it has been over 20 days to the beginning of the rain, no survey has yet been conducted by the revenue department to assess monetary and human losses as well as damages caused by the rain in the Hyderabad district.

A five-member committee, formed by Sindh minister for Auqaf, Zakat, Ushr and religious/minority affairs Dr Irfan Gul Magsi on July 13 that was to submit its report to the Sindh government after conducting a survey of losses and damages caused by the rain has failed to do so.