Turns into hot cauldron: Titilagarh

Bolangir: While whole Odisha is perspiring in the midst of rising temperature, Titilagarh town in Bolangir region has truly transformed into a bubbling cauldron with temperatures drifting more than 40 degree Celsius reliably.

Taking off mercury has tossed typical life out of apparatus in Bolangir locale. Searing warmth is being felt over the region from 10am onwards for last three to four days.

While Bolangir recorded 44.8 degree Celsius Sunday and Monday, Titilagarh’s temperatures on those two days were 45.8 degree Celsius and 45.5 degree Celsius.

The streets in Bolangir town, Titilagarh, Patnagarh, Kantabanji, Tusura and even in towns wear an abandoned look from 10am.

In the interim, the business sectors over the locale have been allowed to open from 7am to 7pm inferable from lockdown limitations.

This has offered ascend to the chance of sunstroke in the area. Keeping this in see, the locale organization has opened drinking water stands at significant chowks, markets and by the side of the road. “Officials and staff working in grassroot level have been approached to be increasingly cautious,” area crisis official Shankarshan Pradhan said.