Cold wave affects life in Mahottari

Jaleshwor, Jan 10: People in the Mahottari district have been badly affected by the cold wave that continued for five days in the district.

The decreasing temperature has taken a toll on people’s movement. Even the livestock and crops are negatively impacted by declined temperatures coupled with cold waves, fog, and clouds, according to Birendra Sharma from Jalewhwor-7.

People’s movement is sparse at the district headquarters, Jaleshwor. The vehicles are also operated in fewer numbers. In the wake of the rising cold, the sales of warm clothes have, however, surged in the market. Similarly, a tea seller, Umesh Sah, from Jaleshwor municipality-1, informed that people throng tea shops to take hot soup and scalded tea.

Tea is on the rise, he shared. Similarly, district health offices and hospitals have witnessed dismal visits of patients. The locals began making fire to keep themselves warm. The decline in temperature has hit hard the children, elderly ones, and women in postpartum. —RSS