Even as two months are to go for the current summer to end, Subarnapur district has already turned out to be a cauldron with mercury refusing to plummet below 40 degree Celsius.
People are apprehending to experience more hot and parched days in coming days.
The temperature in the town was recorded at 40 degree Celsius on Sunday while it was hovering around 43.8 degree in the last three days.
While the natural water sources are drying up, villagers in many villages are now struggling to get even a bucket of water. Villagers of Sargaj gram panchayat under Tarbha block are already feeling the pangs of water scarcity, despite the fact that a lot of money being spent by the Government.
A large number of women of Sargaj GP recently staged a demonstration at the block office with empty buckets and pitchers. They submitted a memorandum to BDO Prasanna Pande demanding immediate steps for supply of water to the GP.
The BDO soon held a meeting with Ward Members Suresh Chandra Behera and Rima Rana, EO Anakar Sahu, GRS Gauri Shankar Mishra and lineman Sunil Mugri over the matter and assured the villagers that new water supply pipelines to be erected soon and before that water would be supplied trough tankers. Then, villagers withdrew the strike.