Sukkur city roads in bad shape

Published January 3, 2009

MOST of the roads have been dug up in the city of Sukkur. Gutters and drains are overflowing. Projects initiated three years earlier are still in progress and 60 per cent work is still to be completed.

Some roads have been dug up more than five times during the last four years in the name of `cable installation`. Sewerage water has become a permanent feature on the road adjacent to Jail No. II for the last six months.

It is the only road which connects Sukkur and Rohri. The district nazim uses this road daily but no action has been taken. After the rains about one kilometre is submerged in mud and dirty drain water. Pedestrians cannot use the road. The administration having a budget of billions of rupees is doing nothing for public.

All the roads and bazaars are full of garbage and encroachments but there is no one to check these problems. Encroachers are at liberty to do what they want with the blessings of nazims and councillors. Not a single road is in normal condition.

Sanitation staff is missing from the area. I request the provincial government to take notice of the situation so that inhabitants of such a big city may not be left at the mercy of councillors and UC nazims who are busy doing other things instead of serving the general public.

M.A. HAKEEM Sukkur

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