Hundreds of people on Wednesday staged a demonstration in the city's Pakka Garha locality against the district government's failure to lay a sewerage system here despite repeated appeals by locals to the authorities over the last several years. The protesters, who were carrying banners and placards inscribed with their demands, raised slogans against the district government. They said there was no drainage and sewerage system in their locality and the sewerage water was entering their houses. They said the locality's only pond was already overflowing and the sewage smell had made people's lives miserable. District government officials evaded comment on the issue. However, tehsil municipal administration officials said a survey had been completed for the construction of a drain in the locality.