BDA-BMC, Big-Bs duo please listen to the cries from a wilderness where people breathe poison for last 6 months

 

By D N Singh

Air pollution in India has become one of the major killers of human. It requires no further certification as the condition of health is just racing against a mammoth headwind of odds that enters the respiratory system day in and day out.

No need to travel miles or no need to measure the AQ levels.

Here in the state capital Bhubaneswar and to become more specific just walk into a BDA built housing colony known as Kalinga Vihar.

A huge patch in this area K-6 has over last one year or so has emerged as a man-made hot spot which symbolizes the neglect and the administrative languor turning the said above area to a blistering nuisance.

Sometime back, large number of trucks were allowed to ply tearing through the artery lanes unleashing a blitzkrieg of dust menace into the houses flanking the roads and lanes.

Once that was stopped  then the authorities (not known which department) started an initiative to relay the beleaguered roads.

Roads  were scrapped and then mortars (Bazjri) were laid followed by the spraying of crusher dust.

It was done about five months back and after that there is a perplexing inaction and the roads and artery lanes practically  underwent a metamorphic degeneration and even a two wheeler movement helped the dust gushing into the houses with an exponential surge.

For over 5 months the residents of the said area remain fed with the deadly pollution with no one to listen to the plight.

Be it the BMC or BDA or the works department each one appear in their comfort zone of disregard to all that happens here. Nobody pays any heed! And that is all.

The roads have entered a devil mode and the people of the area as if become genie pigs for the dismal neglect.