For at the very least a yr now, a 800-metre street stretch exterior two colleges in northeast Delhi’s Khajuri Khas has been stuffed with potholes and sewage water regardless of a number of complaints, forcing many college students to skip lessons, locals have alleged.
Youngsters cross the waterlogged road to succeed in their colleges. (HT Photograph)
The street in Shri Ram colony has at the very least two colleges positioned on it — a Municipal Company of Delhi’s (MCD) pre-primary college, which is located adjoining to Delhi authorities’s Sarvodaya Bal Vidyalaya/Sarvodaya Kanya Vidyalaya (SBV/SKV).
Hasmat Ali, 42, whose son goes to SBV, mentioned the waterlogging makes it harmful for college kids to entry the college. “Sometimes, the water is knee-deep,” he mentioned. One other mum or dad Dinesh Kumar, 51, advised HT, that one in all his kids attends the pre-primary college and is available in contact with the sewage water virtually each day.
A senior SBV official mentioned {that a} transformer can also be positioned proper in entrance of one of many gates of the college the place waterlogging happens, making it extraordinarily harmful for everybody. A grievance to relocate the transformer was filed however no motion was taken, the official claimed.
When HT visited the spot on Saturday, college students may very well be seen strolling alongside the aspect of the street, coming into shut contact with a drain, whereas coming back from college. “Prolonged waterlogging leads to unhygienic conditions promoting the spread of mosquito-borne diseases…putting students at serious health risk,” mentioned lawyer and activist Ashok Agrawal, including that he has filed a grievance with a number of authorities, together with DDA, MCD and PWD, on this regard.
When contacted, an MCD official mentioned motion shall be taken quickly. “ Depending upon whose jurisdiction the road falls, we will take the necessary action,” the official mentioned.