AGARTALA, May 4 (TIWN): A few areas under the extended and newly inducted village panchayats Agartala Municipal Corporation have issues relating to drainage and garbage. Its alleged there is no regular clearance of garbage which tends to accumulate.

“When garbage is cleared, it is thrown into open sites. Collected garbage for long causes hygiene problems and creates a zone of filth” says Arpita Ghosh of Lichuagan of ward no. 2.

She says , “ “While the main roads are good, the cross roads have not been tarred. They have been dug for new pipes to be laid, but it has been a long time and there is no sign of the work happening soon,”

New layouts typically don’t have drains built immediately. The roads are mud roads and sides of these roads are dug up to lay pipes. How fast this work will be complete depends on the interest shown by AMC. 

As you go towards  Agartala aripport  the main roads of the layout are neat and well laid out, while the interiors need development. Asish Chakraborty,  a teacher from  Bholagiri of the same ward says in terms of development, there has been definite improvement over the last three years in the area. As one travels the link road between Airport road and Barjala the road isn’t great, but tarred.

Another biggest problem faced by those areas is lack  of water.“We have to depend on borewells.. We are forced to depend on the public tank built at a corner and on borewells,  Water tankers are also used,”

“The major layouts have been given water connection, but some  added village panchayat  like Bhuban, Lankamura of  ward no 1  face water shortage and no drainage system. ”