HYDERABAD, Feb 28: The district council on Wednesday said that rainwater accumulated last year in certain areas of Qasimabad taluka was still stagnating and demanded a judicial probe into the utilisation of funds for development works in the district.

Awam Dost Panel’s Yamin Soomro put forward a resolution stating that water from last year’s rains was still stagnating in Happy Homes, Citizen Colony and Al-Noor Heights in Qasimabad.

He said that so far the Water and Sanitation Agency (Wasa) had made no move to drain out the rainwater despite repeated requests made by the residents of the area.

He complained about delay in the completion of a drainage scheme in Sachalabad and held the Hyderabad Development Authority (HDA) responsible for poor quality of works in union council -3 of the taluka, which he said was his constituency.

He criticised a district government's letter to asking each UC to spend Rs20,000 from its own account in spite of the fact that the UCs had no such funds. "We neither have sweepers nor have funds," he stressed.

Mr Soomro supported Mehboob Abro’s pointing out to the absence of district government officers and said the matter should be resolved. Shoro village had been under rainwater since September 7-8 rains, he added.

Parvez Ranjha said that the HDA had failed to make its presence felt. The MD of Wasa should be put in the dock after he refused to see district nazim on a sanitation issue, he said and added that the MD was the root cause of the city’s destruction.