Saturday, May 09, 2009

Bad roads, broken sewers and resident's miseries


Bad roads, broken sewers and authorities giving a royal ignore to the resident’s plea to maintain them. That’s the price you pay to live living in those high-rise spacious luxury apartments in Gurgaon. Turn your head towards any side, the condition will remain the same. And try to improve it any which way you can, nobody will listen.
Residents of sector 55 are facing a similar kind of problem. The road leading to their apartments has disappeared, thanx to the broken sewer which floods the roads so badly that even the SUVs find it a problem to chug through the muddy pool, forget about small cars.
“We feel ashamed to invite our relatives and friends to our place. When the sewage water turns the road into a pool, the foul smell emanating from the road adds to our miseries. We have to take a long detour to avoid this road,” says RC Goel, a retired scientist and a resident of Paarth Apartments, Sector 55.
Goel, who shifted from Delhi’s Pitampura area, feels that Gurgaon is nothing in comparison to Delhi in terms of providing civic amenities. “Only thing good about Gurgaon is the space available inside your apartment compound and your home. Outside it is just like any other urbanized village,” Goel adds.
The road also leads to the Sushant Lok II residence of District Congress leader Satbir Gujjar. According to Gujjar, “On my insistence HUDA had once repaired the road. But with broken sewer it came back to the same position again. If residents approach to HUDA again, I am sure they will repair the broken sewer and make the road metalled.”
However, Goel says, “Several times we have brought it to HUDA’s notice, but nothing has been done till now. We are confused now, whether the road actually belongs to HUDA or falls under Gurgaon Municipal Corporation or some other civic body.”

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