SIALKOT: The people of Pasrur city have protested the failure of the Pasrur Municipal Committee to fix the choked sewerage lines.

Several residents, including Maqsudul Husnain, Arif Mehmood Sheikh, Ehsan Gilani, Rana Muhammad Akram, Mehmood Butt Bablu, Naveed Ahmed, Khurram Bashir, Nasir Mehmood and Muhammad Iqbal, said congested residential and commercial areas had been inundated with overflowing sewage due to which they had were facing great difficulties.

The traders of the grain market said the market had been under the sewage for the last one month and their repeated reminders to the municipality and minister Zahid Hamid had failed to yield any result.

They said the delicate business of wheat and other grains required good hygienic conditions but the bad sanitation had hampered their trade activities.

Pasrur Municipal Committee officials said that there was a shortage of sanitary workers. They said that the bad sanitation situation of the grain market was in their notice.

Traders demanded Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif take serious notice of the situation.

Published in Dawn, September 10th, 2017