Amid rising temperatures in Delhi, the Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) has issued an Red alert for the city for three days with warnings of maximum temperatures reaching up to 45 degree Celsius. The department had earlier issued an Orange alert.
A red alert means a severe heatwave persisting for over 2 days, with people at risk of heat illness and heat stroke
The IMD said that 바카라Heat wave conditions are likely to prevail over Northwest India during the next 4-5 days.바카라 The department added that the 바카라feels-like바카라 temperature touched 48.5 degree Celsius at 2:30 PM on Monday.
Heat waves are not a new phenomenon and plague the capital every year from the months of May to July. The brunt of this extreme heat is not suffered by those sitting in air-conditioned rooms, but instead by those at the lower rungs of society. Data from the Zonal Integrated Police Network and the Ministry of Home Affairs released last year showed that fatalities among the homeless in Delhi broke a 22-year record for most deaths recorded in a nine-day period. This was as most of the individuals who died were unable to get adequate and timely medical attention during the heatwave. The data stated that a record 192 homeless people died in the Capital between June 11 and June 19.
In Outlook Magazine바카라s 21 July, 2024 issue, 바카라Climate Injustice바카라, we looked at how the urban poor fight climate change. Rukhsana, a homeless woman who lived underneath the Jamia Millia Islamia metro station along with her husband and children shared her plight.
Rukhsana and the people who live around her fill water from a tap in the nearby 바카라forest바카라 - referring to an Irrigation Department enclosure which has a considerable tree-cover. Her family of four continued to stay on the footpath under the metro station even during the longest and harshest heat wave that Delhi saw in several years. As her daughter moved around barefoot, her husband used a piece of waste plastic to fan himself. 바카라Humare jaise log aur kahan jayenge?바카라 (Where will people like us go?), she said.
Bhumika Saraswati portrays this inequality through a story titled 바카라An Unequal Heat: In Photos바카라. It highlights the difference between someone sitting in an air-conditioned room and comparing their experience to that of a Dalit woman toiling in the sun, working someone바카라s field for a daily wage.
Saraswati ventured into a remote village in Uttar Pradesh for a visual project 바카라Heat South Asia바카라, where she met Kamlesh, a Dalit woman labourer. Her voice was frail but resolute as she recounted her struggle: 바카라I have been sick for at least three days now because of this heat. I have lost work and daily wages because of it. I earn Rs 350 ($4) per day working as a labourer on farms. In the past four days, I바카라ve lost over Rs 1000 (around $11) due to the heat and related sickness.바카라
Prakash Kashwan바카라s piece 바카라Climate Change: A Crisis Of Inequality바카라 states that even though international media blamed the rapidly worsening effects of climate change, most Indians refer to extreme heat, floods, and landslides as 바카라natural disasters.바카라
