Water preservation ignored in Orissa
Water scarcity has reached alarming proportions, ponds and water bodies in Baripada town are being used as dumping yards. The Government, on its part, is showing little interest in renovating them.
It is noticed that different shopkeepers have encroached on some portions of the ponds to open their stalls, in other areas they are filled with garbage, weeds and waste materials. Even medical waste of a nearby nursing home has been dumped there.
With no renovation and de-weeding for years, the ponds have become unfit for use. They are filled with plastic bottles, polythene and waste materials. Hotels, restaurants and shops have made these ponds their dumping yards.
Though lot of amount was spent from different government funds, the ponds in the town are now in a miserable condition.
Municipal authorities, however, cited funds constraint behind the delay in renovation. The ponds which need urgent attention have become breeding grounds of poisonous snakes and mosquitoes due to lack of renovation.
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Source: IBN Live
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