Noor-ul-Ain Siddiqui When Hyderabad was sunk

 No reference of any report, except media reports. No attribution. Very generalized.

What headline suggest nothing is there 

Water, water everywhere, when Hyderabad was sunk

 Writing on Social issues

NOOR-UL-AIN SIDDIQUI 2k18/MC/118

2nd semester Nov 2020

 

Is it possible to regard Hyderabad a peaceful city without any societal issues. There are many burning issues that Hyderabad the second largest city of Sindh is currently facing, the problem of drainage system and sewerage water remain a highlighted issue since few decades. Poor drainage system and sewerage water has always remained a major headache of residents of this city and heavy rains from past few years act as a catalyst to this raising concern. Qasimabad Hyderabad is considered as the most desired residential area, citizen colony and Gulistan e sajjad comes under posh categories, but the heavy rains and poor drainage system tells an entirely different story. Being a VIP area the condition of roads and neighborhoods are not satisfactory, due to bumpy roads, open gutter line and piles of rubbish, the sewerage water remain at the main roads and cause great difficulties for the residents. The people remained helpless as they could not evacuate the place and many areas of Hyderabad were submerged under water for weeks.

 

The population of Qasimabad according to 2017 Celsius is 304,899 and that will make approximately 35 percent of population in the concerned areas. The recent rains in Hyderabad reveals a lot about our administration as well, in 2019 there was around 50+ mm rainfall and in 2020 around 200 mm, but the areas due to neglected governance turned into ponds and rivers. (Describe what  neglected governance, give concrete examples?)

 PDMA and WASA stands for what? use full name first and then abbreviation 

Civil administration, Deputy Commissioners, Assistant commissioners to Mukhtiarkars tried to personally handle rainy situations in their particular areas and PDMA had provided around 10 dewatering pumps to Municipal department but they were not operated in Qasimabad due to lack of skills of staff to install and operate them. Even WASA the water and sanitation Agency was out of power due to heavy downpour and that effect gravely, in disposal of water. In a press conference held on 27th August 2020 Chief Minister of Sindh Syed Murad Ali Shah said Hesco the electric supply company of Hyderabad failed to supply power to WASA in that result many areas remained under water for several days and weeks. Many political members visited the effected areas and record their statements Awami Tehreek leader Ayaz Latif Palijo visited the areas of Qasimabad including Citizen Colony, Gulistan-e-Sajjad and Bhitai town and blamed Sindh government for incompetence and negligence of authorities.

Hyderabad municipal corporation is proper noun, first charcter of every word be capitlaise

Hyderabad municipal corporation and WASA have already questionable serves and relying on them with Moonsoon and urban flooding is rather worrisome. (Moonsoon not proper noun, do not capitlaise)

These both organizations are meant to work throughout the year but due to their negligence people suffer, they deliberately delay their tasks and add everything to cause major shortcomings. These issues including urban flooding cause psychological and financial problems for the residents, a lot of expenses were lost to these floods and people suffer mentally as well. We do not have a proper drain out system, if these organizations are draining out water but they do not have a system to do it, in citizen colony and Gulistan-e-Sajjad the drainage water which was drained out after weeks of suffering and that water was released in graveyards, it was really a moment of shame for everyone, as a society we are also a part of it, and that water was literally, left there to dry out naturally.

 

Residents of different areas of Hyderabad gathered (when) at press Club Hyderabad to record their protest against Authorities, WASA and Hesco, they complain about the drainage water that is inside their homes and street, their was shortage of drinking water as well. Protesters complained about the power shortage and even after 4 to 5 days the problem is not resolved. This thing happens to me as well there was power shortage for a full whole week in Citizen Colony Hyderabad and all the complains were to no avail. I remember it was 9th of Muharam and in that sacred night our area was out of power and same situation was the other day as well. Poor drainage system and sewerage water have caused health issues as well, the stagnant water serves as a sources for many diseases causing mosquitoes and flies and even cause foul odor. Diseases like Cholera, hepatitis, malaria, diarrhea and typhoid fever ( figures and facts, No of cases reported plus concrete examples). Fungi also grow in moist areas and cause fungal diseases as well. Health is an important issue which needs proper attention (What proper attention? sepcify) by the authorities, in rainy seasons usually there is a great raise in diseases and disease causing agents.

 

To tackle with these unwanted issues we as a citizen and nation, need to work together, not only organizations are going to solve these issues, public awareness is necessary to deal with these situations, in public awareness we need to aware citizens to maintain cleanness that include their Mullahs and streets and proper coverage of gutters.

Monthly cleaning of drains by authorities should be made mandatory and there should be check and balance of that. Inception of areas by respective people and any concerned authorities should be made. There should be construction of roads, the bumpy roads are cause of stagnant water. Early precautions should be made to deal with these situation that these conditions will not go out of hands.

There should be area wise administration that will monitor the conditions and progress which is made, made decisions based on residents welfare and also include them in the decision making process because they have better knowledge of their own area.

Monthly meetings should be held to check and inquire the problems of the citizens and monthly tasks should be design to follow that through out the month, so that work should be complete on time and not delayed. As a citizen of the concerned area, I myself witnessed these issues. My whole house was under water in monsoons of 2019 and 2020 and it was heart wrenching to see such destructive situation of my area which somehow

looks perfectly fine and worn out from the insides and these natural disasters unveil the true face of our administrations, city government and society as whole.

Newspaper and Magazine production 

Assigned by Sir Sohail Sangi 

Media and Communication studies 

 University of Sindh, Jamshoro