A LOT of land in Gule Latif Colony — located in front of the Sindh Museum in Hyderabad — has an amenity plot meant for a children’s park. It is now a super dustbin.

People regularly throw garbage on this plot. It stinks, spreading a bad smell all around. Once there used to be an iron dustbin kept on this plot by the Hyderabad Development Authority, but that too has been removed by the authorities concerned to some other place.

There is no arrangement for removing the garbage which during rains is swept into drains. This chokes household drains. Pity, the HDA has turned a blind eye to the problem.

There is a grand mosque, Noori Masjid, spread over about 10 acres. Heaps of garbage are lying near gate No. 4 of this mosque. Every Friday night religious-minded people of Sindh, Balochistan, as well as of Punjab, assemble at this mosque for delivering informative and educative sermons on religious topics. They spend the whole night in the mosque and leave in the morning.

No heed has ever been paid by the HDA to the need for improving the unhygienic environment of this colony.

Lala Fazal Ahmed Bellae

Hyderabad

Published in Dawn, July 27th, 2017