BAHAWALPUR: The city`s main and busiest roads near Farid Gate, Zanana Hospital, Bahawal Victoria Hospital (BVH), Quaid-i-Azam Medical College (QAMC), Fowara Chowk, Milad Chowk and Multan Road have been submerged by sewage after the main pipeline at Lal Bagh collapsed.

As a result, there is sewage in all the streets and roads in the old city areas, creating inconvenience for the residents, shopkeepers and pedestrians.

Last week, the main pipeline of the city`s sewerage system connecting it to the main disposal work near Lal Bagh, Bindra Basti had broken. The tehsil municipal administration (TMA) did some repair work with the assistance of the Public Health Engineering Department (PHED) but failed to stop the leakage of sewage.

Due to the accumulation of sewage in front ofthe BVH, the patients are unable to cross the road easily. The shopkeepers around Fowara Chowk are also facing a threat that the sewage may enter their shops. There is smell of stinking sewage in the whole area and epidemics may break out.

Though the sanitary workers along with some machinery have been deployed at some places to drain sewage out of the Circular Road and other places but they look to be ineffective.

When contacted, TMA acting administrator Tanveer Ahmed Jhandhir claimed that the main pipeline had been repaired but it again broke last night.

He said the line was repaired for the second time but unluckily, the sewerage course functioning as its main outlet to take the sewage outside the city collapsed due to pressure. He added repair work was in full swing and it would be completed at the earliest.