Hazaribagh, known as Shimla of undivided Bihar, is once again in the grips of cold wave. Para is going down and down daily. It was maximum 20 degrees and minimum 7.6 degrees on Sunday while it came down to maximum 18.2 degrees and minimum 6 degrees on Tuesday, December 22. On Wednesday it again remained cloudy and the little breeze going on is the sign that the temperature will go down more in the days to come.
Due to the weather the denizens come out in the streets late in the morning and go back to their houses early in the evening. Dense fog remains till 8-9 am while it starts taking the town in its grip from 7 pm onwards. Cold wave has started penetrating into the bones of all living beings thus making the survival more uneasy.
After village local body election the district administration has started taking care of the poor people and arrangement of fire has been provided by them at almost all the important sites of the town where people use to pass their night in open. District administration has arranged fire during the counting of village local body election but at that time its main focus was on the election process.
Yester night DC Mukesh Kumar himself came out in the streets of the town with blankets. He visited the spots where Rickshaw pullers and other such daily earners poor people use to spend their night and distributed blankets among them. last night he started from district transport office premises where large number of rickshaw pullers and labourers were struggling with the cold wave with the fire provided by district administration. Here he gave blankets to 30 persons. From DTO the DC along with other officials moved towards Sadar hospital campus and distributed blankets among the needy ones spending night there in hardship. He also gave blankets to some patients and then moved towards bus stand.