Amidst piercing chill and cold waves in numbing nights, poor are braced for worse in Bokaro. Dipping mercury thrown life out of gear across the district, affected people of all age groups.
Poor including slum dwellers and rickshaw pullers are worst hit in the township areas. Met official said, “cold wave will continue for the next few days and people need to take more precautions”.
Dipping mercury threw life out of gear across the district, in the lack of bonfire armaments on streets, people are compiled to collect garbage, plastics, poly bags and waste material in every nooks and corner to lit to prevent them from shivering cold and chattering teeth.At the time when district administrative officials are in fray to distribute blankets and light bone fires on the streets, many people including NGOs came forward and distributed around 150 blankets among the poor shivering in the biting cold on Sunday.
“We have distributed blankets among the poor to feel them warmth from biting cold”, said a social activist.