AMC fails to clean Ara Town even during Dyga Puja

Kumar Rajiv Nayan

Ara : Ara Municipal Corporation (AMC) has failed to clean even as the town even during the Durga Puja. The apathy of the local municipal authorities has created unhygienic condition in the town. Overflowing drains, heaps of garbage, broken culverts, dry taps and damaged lanes and bylanes are common sights. Neither the local MP nor the MLA is taking any interest in improving the poor civic condition though locals are doing their bit to remove filth and garbage and cleaning the choked drains.

Roadside vendors enjoy a free run. After occupying most of the footpath and pavements in the heart of the town, they have now have spilled over to the roads with their wares. Traffic jams have become endemic. The handcarts vendors, three- wheelers and rickshaw-pullers have converted the main roads into personal parking zones. Commuting through on-the-road vegetable markets has become a risky venture. One never knows when a stray cattlle might hit him. One has to walk with one hand on the nose to avoid inhaling the stench-filled foul air.

AMC Commissioner Pramod Kumar feels his predecessors have made his task Herculean. The shortage of staff and scavengers has further added to his woes.This reporter visited several areas and found heaps of garbage and overflowing drains in these areas.

AMC deploys its rundown infrastructure and meagre manpower to cleanthe city but that has proved to be inadequate. With the AMC pushing all its resources to clean city main roads, the localities on the fringe have become no one’s baby,’ lamented a professor, Vikramaditya Singh, a resident of Tilak Nagar. Sanitation workers are a rare sight in these areas, complained locals. Locals had to pull money to hire sanitation workers and rid the locality of the two overflowing garbage bins, said a resident.

If the municipal commissioner Pramod Kumar and Mayor, AMC, Priyam Devi are to be believed, things would improve at the earliest.