AGARTALA, May 22 (TIWN): Heat waves blowing over Tripura hit normal daily life here. According to a local meteorological report, the maximum temperature record to be 36 degree. The weather is becoming harsh due to the lack of normal humidity and thus makes the weather hot and dry.

According to the doctors’ reports several ailments are swelling over the city and affecting the city’s health. Cases of heat exhaustion, muscle cramps, stomach upsets and vomiting are also on the rise. People are advised by the doctors to drink lots of water, salt and sugar and to avoid unnecessary exposure to the sun.

 Moreover, with the arrival of summer the citizens are mostly found before the fruit shops and juice stalls. Many traders have set up classy fruit juice stalls for the season. Although it is to be mentioned here that the availability of an assortment of fruit juices and milk shakes has come as an easy, though often expensive, way to beat the heat.

 Youth are mostly found at `cool fruit juice’ joints where they find it pleasurable to `chill-out' with friends at night. Every evening, long queues of vehicles are being parked outside the fruit juice outlets in the city. The preferred drink in this season seems to be the so-called `ice-cream' milk shakes, which come in various psychedelic hues. With that, the demand of cold drinks also prevails in the State.  

 But the pictures of the rural areas are although different from the city life. With the onset of summer season, various water borne diseases like diarrhea, dysentery are affecting the people especially in the rural areas. Women and girls of the rural parts of the state are used to bear the burden of walking miles at a time, to gather water from streams and ponds, which are full of waterborne disease which is making them and their families sick.  And also it is nothing new for the state govt.  who is always being back tracked from supplying drinking water to the rural Tripura by demanding the state as developing fast, in terms of education, and health. Is this called the “Golden Era” that lacks the basic needs for the villagers of the state?