India, Sept. 21 -- Residents of two residential pockets of Indirapuram Township have been facing severe sewage overflow in their localities for more than a week and have complained to the Ghaziabad municipal corporation for urgent redressal, residents said on Saturday.

The affected areas, Shakti Khand 1 and Niti Khand 1, with an estimated population of 15,000 to 20,000 people, have reported sewage spilling onto streets. "The problem has been persisting off and on for about a month now, and this week there was heavy sewage overflow. The filthy water came on the streets to a height of about 2-3 feet and would recede only during the night. We have been trying to reach out to the corporation officials for the past several days, but they did ...