AGARTALA, June 6 (TIWN): Tripura is recently burning with terrible heat. The temperature of the State is rising day by day. People fell ill due to the scorching summer heat. Due to this various diseases like diarrhea, dysentery creates havoc in the remotest part of the State. However Meteorological Department announces the arrival of monsoon in the next 4-5 days.

According to the MET Department, the maximum temperature recorded for the day is nearly 36 degree centigrade while the minimum temperature is 27.5 degree. The temperature will rise further- told MET. is 3 times high than the original one.

With the arrival of summer, , there seems to be a growing patronage among citizens for up market fruit juice stalls selling exotically named milk and fruit concoctions.

Many traders have set up classy fruit juice stalls for the season in affluent middle class neighborhoods. It is mostly the urban youth who patronize these `cool' fruit juice joints where they find it pleasurable to `chill-out' with friends at night. The availability of an assortment of fruit juices and milk shakes has come as an easy, though often expensive, way to beat the heat.

Every evening, there are long queues of vehicles parked outside the fruit juice outlets in the city. The preferred drink 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.

Meanwhile, the heat wave took a toll on the city’s health, with doctors reporting a rise in several ailments. Cases of heat exhaustion, muscle cramps, stomach upsets and vomiting are also on the rise. The doctors advised people take in lots of water, salt and sugar and avoid unnecessary exposure to the sun. However with the onset of summer season, various water borne diseases like diarrhea, dysentery affects the people especially in the rural areas.

 Women and girls of the rural parts of the state Tripura bear the burden of walking miles at a time to gather water from streams and ponds full of waterborne disease that is making them and their families sick. And also it is nothing new for the state govt. who always being back tracked from supplying drinking water to the rural Tripura and often says the state is 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?