Mail News Service
Jamshedpur,
June 20 : In what could be a sign of arrival of Monsoon soon, thunderstorms
and lightning struck the city on Thursday. Dark clouds hovered above the
cityscape around 4 pm and gusty winds followed, resulting in heavy rain. The
heat wave in Chotanagpur area is likely to subside within a fortnight and the
pre-monsoon showers may get intense, the Met Office said. “The pre-monsoon
showers usually come a week ahead of the actual monsoon rain and so far the
monsoon looks to be on track,” said an official. Jamshedpur has witnessed
high temperatures in the past week, with the day temperature in many places
crossing 42 degrees Celsius.
With cloud build-up and increased humidity, the Meteorological Department
forecasts occasional pre-monsoon showers to provide relief for the citizens of
the coast from the soaring mercury levels.
After nearly one week of rising heat levels, rains are back in the district. While there was drizzle reported on the outskirts of Jamshedpur, the office has recorded nearly 3mm of rainfall at their gauge in the city.
However, with the maximum temperature hovering around 42 degree Celsius, and cloud build up increasing humidity to 92 per cent (nearly 14 per cent higher than the normal recorded), the day remained hot and muggy for citizens here.
The residents of the Mango
Notified Area Committee, (MNAC) have been clamoring for the drinking water availability
since early May.
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.
“Yes, in the peak of summer the rains that lashed the city in the last few
days has 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.
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.
