Turning pitch dark, the polluted stream enters Leisure Valley, a morning walkers paradise turned nightmare. Certain landmarks that show the stinking litter in true light included the Leisure Valley, Sector 62 and near both the PCA Stadium and Joining the bandwagon of polluters, Punjab's Public Health Department too is contributing to this criminal neglect as the network of underground and even open pipes have openings in the flow.
No cleaning work had been carried out till date. Greater Mohali Area Development Authority (GMADA) officials point out that the severely blocked 'choe' caused serious damage to the structures along its embankment. An NRI, Santokh Singh Parmar, who owns a house in Phase 9, suffered a sizeable loss to his dream mansion. Accountability, with action on non performance,ĭuring the monsoons of 2009, the swollen 'choe' water had entered houses in Phase IX here. They have been taking residents for a ride and doing little Need to sit with their head together to find a permanent solution to This, however, is only a temporaryĮxisting problem, the Chandigarh Administration and Mohali authorities We keep on sending health department officials to General public, particularly with regard to the mosquitoes breeding in President of the Citizen Welfare Federation Suffered chest congestion problem and burning sensation in his eyes. Was among the worst sufferers due to the stinking stream. The sewage from the Burail Jail Complex and a sizeable number of multi-storied cooperative house building societies is allowed unchecked to flow into the Miseries continue unabated for thousands of residents living along the dreadful water body in Sectors 61, 62, 63, 64 and 67 of Mohali.Ī random survey and interaction with a cross section of residents in the area revealed that the Chandigarh Administration had created exit points of sewage at different points along the zigzag boundary shared with its poor cousin. "Our lives are miserable and we don't have a choice to of moving out in the face of this criminal neglect by the authorities", said Alamjit Singh, a resident of Sector 63. Sadly, the rotting 'choe' flows along the famed PCA stadium, venue of international cricket tournaments, and the National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education (NIPER), a national level pharmaceutical research institution. Much to the anguish of the residents, the choe flows through densely populated residential areas of this city. Located in the lower gradient, residents of Mohali are the "end users" of the liquid poison that spreads and strangulates patches of agricultural land. The repulsive picture of garbage in the sewers and the killing stench offers no hope of respite because there exists no corrective mechanism for clearing the litter, within the Union Territory. Poor cousin of the City Beautiful, Mohali continues to bear the forced load of the filth, stink and muck flowing down the N-Choe. Rather more outlets have been opened in to the choe, said Ranjivan Singh, the advocate who contested the case on behalf of the Council. It has been almost four years since the status reports were filed, but the untreated sewage still flows into the In 2006, during the course of contempt proceedings when Chandigarh officials and PUDA officials in their status reports mentioned about closing outlets discharging sewage in to the N Choe by eating joints, closing of outlets bringing domestic effluents of Sectors 15,16, 17, 23 and 24 of Chandigarh and closing of outlets bringing sewer of Phases 9, 10 and 11 in to theĬhoe, the High Court dropped the proceedings with liberty to the petitioner to get the same revised or initiate fresh proceedings. But with no follow up action, the petitioners filed a contempt petition.
Consequently, the CWP was disposed off in 2003 with directions to the respondents to form a three-member committee for quick follow up action. Tej, had filed a civil writ petition(CWP) in the Punjab and Haryana High Court in 2001, blaming the Chandigarh and Mohali authorities of doing nothing about the menace. Under the banner of the Citizens Welfare Council, Mohali residents led by its President, BS