Jamshedpur : All though, the pre monsoon shower yet to arrive but the cyclonic rains have worked wonder or to say it was blessing in disguise for the people reeling under heavy water crisis.
The residents of the Mango Notified Area Committee, (MNAC) have been clamoring for the drinking water availability since early April however, with the Lok Sabha elections going on the district administration was occupied with the electioneering work and even the political parties that often hit the streets on every small issue too, were busy with the elections.
And, in the midst of all this the voice of the crisis ridden residents of the Mango gone unheard and the in the peak of the summer the locals had to face much problem.
The problem of the more than one lakh people remained unaddressed for large part of the summer with not a single drop of water coming out from the hand pumps and even the wells gone dry in the remote areas of the locality. Even though, MNAC had supplied water through tankers over the period but still large part of the area remained untouched in the wake of its limited supply and particularly those areas falling under the Azadnagar police station.
Besides, the water level under ground too, has witnessed a rise and this has resulted in the supply of water through hand pumps.
“Yes, in the peak of summer the rains that lashed the city in the last few days have worked good for us. The water level in the well of my house has increased and fewer hand pumps in the area too are generating water,” said, Kishore Singh, BJP member and resident of Mango post office line.
Similary, Kalu Mian, popularly known as Haji saheb, a meat merchant and resident of road number-12, Azadnagar, a densely populated Muslim area, said that the rise of water level in the river and under ground has helped them little with water now flowing out of the hand pumps, at least.
Nevertheless, the MNAC officials are not very happy with the ‘rains quenching Mango residents thirst’ logic. In fact they have maintained that until a sound system of supplying drinking water comes up there is always the possibility of water crisis looming large over the Mango area.
“Temporary arrangements, even if we make, are for the short time. In the long run a viable system of supplying water to the large population should be there on the ground,” conceded, an official of MNAC.
A met official of the city said that maximum temperatures would fall by 2-3 deg Celsius during the next three days. However the cloudy weather would not affect the heat in the city. “The moisture content in the air is very high. Maximum and minimum temperatures will be above 36 degree Celsius.
People, in large numbers, ventured outdoors enjoying the breezy weather while some youngsters preferred to get drenched in the drizzle. Showers were seen in areas of Jamshedpur, Chaibasam, Chakulia and lasted for entire day.
According to the meteorological department, chances are that these localised thunderstorms will greet the city tomorrow once again. But it would not result in heavy rain nor will it have much effect on the temperature.
