Irate locals and Congress workers on Tuesday held a demonstration before the Cuttack Municipal Corporation (CMC) office over inadequate sanitation and other civic amenities in the city and scuffled with police.
The protestors led by Cuttack Nagar District Congress president Mohammed Moquim, the activists staged the protest. When they tried to barge into the CMC office, police tried to stop them. This resulted in a clash.
“City residents are being neglected by the CMC. Congress workers visited various wards recently and found that even minimum facilities like drinking water and sanitation are eluding people. Effluents from choked drains are spreading out to roads resulting in outbreak of diseases like jaundice,” said Moquim. “If the CMC does not act before monsoons, we will paralyse its functioning,” he added.
locals also echoed his words and said that there is an urgent need to improve civic amenities in the city.