Ganesh idol installed amid sewage leak in Shaikpet colony

What should have been a time of joyful celebration has turned into a public health nightmare, forcing residents into a painful dilemma.

Residents of Vinayak Nagar Colony in Shaikpet were compelled to install their traditional 10-foot Ganesh idol right next to pooling, overflowing sewage, enduring the deeply repulsive stench of flowing drain water daily.

The residents criticised Hyderabad Metropolitan Water Supply and Sewerage Board



(HMWSSB) officials for failing to address sewage leaks and overflowing manholes ahead of the festival. Residents pointed out that multiple complaints had been ignored even as other civic bodies undertook road and manhole repairs and tree-pruning work.

“We have lodged multiple complaints with the water board but all of them were ignored ahead of the festival,” Maryala Ajay Kumar, UFERWAS member and joint secretary of Vinayak Nagar Colony Welfare Association, told Meda.