HYDERABAD, July 12: The residents of Labour Colony, Labour Square, SITE, Hyderabad, held a protest rally on Friday to protest against the Sindh Workers Welfare Board (SWWB) for non-availability of drinking water, unhygienic conditions in the colony, and the dilapidated condition of marriage halls.

They carried banners and placards inscribed with slogans against the inefficient officers of the Sindh Workers Welfare Board.

Addressing the rally outside the local press club, councillors Choudhry Hafeezullah, Noor Jehan, union council 16, Latifabad, and others lashed out at the officials of the Board for neglecting the colony for the last 17 years.

They said that the residents of the colony had been deprived of drinking water and they were living in unhygienic conditions.

They said that the sewerage system had totally collapsed, there was no hospital, school, playground, or transport system, and the tanker mafia was doing a roaring business as the people had to pay Rs300 for one tanker.

They said in the absence of security arrangements, theft and other crimes were on the increase and there was no one to stop the entry of dubious characters in the colony.

They said no space had been provided to bury the dead.

They appealed to the officials of the Welfare Board to take notice of the problems of the people of the colony and at least make arrangements for drinking water.

Originally civic arrangements were made for only 200 quarters but later on 400 more quarters were constructed in the colony for which no additional arrangements of water supply or sewerage system have been made.