Patna: No sooner summer season started this year than the whole nation came under the unrelenting heat wave which has taken many lives so far in different parts of the country. In the month of April, the temperature is presenting the scene of hot month of June. Condition is similar in Bihar’s capital city of Patna where the running April has been recorded as the hottest April in one decade. With each day, heat is going up here.
The temperature on 24th April was recorded 42.3 degree Celsius and 42.5 degree on 25th April while today it has been recorded 43 degree. This has disturbed the daily life of the people in the city.
People feel very difficult to go out of homes after 9am. Markets are seen deserted and most shops are closed for 4-5 hours in the noon time. Girls are seen going to schools and colleges with covering whole body including faces and using sunglasses. Parents are worried until their children return home from schools and they try to keep them inside the houses after the school time. Roadside vendors also do not dare to be on the road under the scorching sun and roads also wear deserted look at midday.
Shortage of water supply and regular shedding of electricity for several hours every day add salt to the wounds of people. People fear that when the situation is so bad in this month what will happen in May and June.
[Photos by Mudassir Rizwan of TwoCircles.net in Patna]
