PANIPAT: Industrial areas in the Textiler City especially Sector 29 Part-2 lacks basic amenities such as choked sewerage, supply of potable water, blocked drains, defective street lights during night, worst road infrastructure and other basic amenities. In-spite of crying for the attention by the industry owners in the area the concerned government authorities. With defunct streetlights, choked sewerage, blocked drains, no supply of potable water and broken roads, the sector lacks basic amenities, rue industrialists that the main reason behind the poor condition of the area is that it has been divided under three separate departments: HSVP, HSIIDC and the Municipal Corporation, said Nitin Arora, President of Panipat Dyers’ Association that due to the blocked sewerage at various places, the untreated effluents from the units flow on to the streets leaving a bad smell all around. The industry entrepreneurs in the area said that the situation turned worst after their sector was put under the control of three different departments, earlier it was under the Haryana Shahari Vikas Pradhikaran (HSVP). They demanded that their sector be placed under one department so that they could raise their problems at a single platform.
Bheem Singh Rana, president of the Haryana Environmental Management Society and former president of the Panipat Dyers’ Association said the sector was especially developed for dyers in 2003 by the HSVP, then known as HUDA when most of the dyeing units were scattered all around in the city, later shifted to this sector having 779 plots and were given the facility of using the canal water, but it lacked basic amenities right from the beginning, Rana said that this was the only sector where there was no supply of potable water. At present, as many as 750 industrial units are operational in the sector providing not only employment to the thousands of people but also generate sheavy revenue to government. He said, the problems were raised with the officials concerned at Panipat and Chandigarh several times, but to no result and could not be resolved till date.

Vikas Chachra, executive member of Panipat Dyers’ Association, said, the industry owners are facing a major problem due to the choked sewerage system in the area, the sewer lines have not been cleaned for a long time and untreated effluents are flowing on to main roads making it difficult to walk or drive. He further said that being a dyeing unit sector and the water which contains chemicals used in the dyeing process goes to the Common Effluent Treatment Plant. Since, the main sewerage line is choked at several places, due to which this untreated water is overflowing on to various streets in the sector. Nitin Arora, president, Panipat Dyers’ Association, also said the main reason behind the poor condition of the sector is that it falls under the jurisdiction of three separate departments. A delegation of industrialists of this area recently met the  state industry minister and discussed their problems, who assured them that their problems would be resolved at the earliest.