Ahmedabad's New Maninagar has turned into ‘Paani-nagar’

The New Maninagar area is not among the 190 lucky spots in this city. The area is still waterlogged after the last week’s downpour and the residents now find that gutters have begun to overflow with sewage. The area between Shrinandnagar City and Mahadev Society is where one can witness children from the nearby Doon Excellence School, women and office goers wade through water a little below the knee to go to their destinations.
peated com plaints to t municipal co poration hav yielded no r sults.On Mo day, a few m nicipal worker told locals th they will r move the wate by pumpin into a local gu ter, but nothi pened in that direction.
“I had taken three members of my family to a nearby clinic with complaints of fever and gastric infections. I suspect it’s because of this stagnant water,” said Manoj Sharma, a local resident.
Another resident from the area, Siddharth Gadhvi, said, “When we won a house in New Maninagar, we thought this place will have civic utilities. Today, we wade through gutter water. Drains here are either choked or absent. The topography of the place has not been respected and the AMC has allowed constructions in natural drain,” Gadhvi said.