The residents of Adityapur in adjoining Seraikela-Kharsawan, which is in the green or least risk zone according to the Centre's classification of Covid-affected districts, are compelled to live under extremely unhygienic conditions.

The streets of Adityapur, which adjoins Jamshedpur, are not only stinking because of the absence of proper cleaning, but several localities have become a commuter's nightmare because of unfilled pits dug by the urban development department to lay sewage pipelines.

In the absence of garbage removal, the streets as well as the backyards of the residential areas are filled with municipal waste.

Though not many people are coming out of their houses because the markets are closed, whoever does venture out for any work has to bear with the stench emanating from the garbage heaps.

Several roads had been dug up to lay sewage pipelines in Adityapur Colony and residential areas in Majhitola, M-type and S-type zones. After the sewerage-laying work stopped at Adityapur Colony because of protests from local residents, the dug-up roads have not been filled. After back-to-back rain, the pits are waterlogged and posing dangers to anyone out on the streets.

The road leading to RIT police station is also filled with such pits.

“The situation has become so bad that we cannot move out of the house,” said legal assistant Rakesh Kumar Singh, 45, a resident of Adityapur Colony. Dirty water is accumulating in the pits, helping mosquitoes breed. As of now we are safe from Covid-19 as Seraikela-Kharsawan district continues to be in the green zone but the residents of Adityapur may fall prey to vector-borne diseases.”

Adityapur mayor Vinod Srivastava said he was helpless.

“I am aware of the problems resulting out of the incomplete sewerage projects. But nothing can be done unless the lockdown is over because no work can be taken up right now,” he said.