In the ‘Chetna Samaroh’, the people will decide on the action plan to be taken to put brakes on the practice to release sewer water of the entire Jalandhar city into this drain.

Fed up with the indifferent attitude of the administration towards their problem, the affected peopled approached Baba Balbir Singh Seechewal, who is spearheading a campaign to clean the 164-km highly polluted Kali Bein since 2001, seeking his guidance in cleaning the Jamsher drain.

A delegation of people led by Amarjit Singh Shergil, Baba Sukhjinder Singh, Nirmal SIngh, Charnjit Singh of Jamsher and Bhodasoprai villages had met Baba Seechewal in this regard.

It may be noted that like Kala Sanghia drain, Jamsher drain is meant for rainwater which further gets connected with Chitti Bein. It finally falls into the Sutlej river. Besides Jalandhar city’s sewer discharge, even the sludge from the milk dairies around the city is being dumped into the Jamsher drain.

As the drain water is finally released into Sutlej, the river water is also getting polluted which is being used by the people of Malwa belt. Also the drain has been causing contamination of the ground water of the area due to which people have been suffering from various skin diseases, said Amrjit Singh Shergil. “Enough is enough. We will do whatever it takes to stop the effluents from being discharged into the rainwater drain,’’ said villager.

It may be noted that though Kala Sanghia is rainwater drain, and for decades the leather industries’ non-treated highly polluted water was being released in the same turning the water source of nearly 19 villages — located along side the drain — highly toxic.