Cold wave affects life in Mahottari

Normal life in Mahottari district has been adversely affected due the cold wave which continued for five days. The decreasing temperature has taken a toll on people’s movement.

Even the livestock and crops are negatively impacted with plummeting temperatures coupled with cold waves, fog and cloud, according to Birendra Sharma from Jaleshwor-7.

People’s movement is sparse at district headquarters, Jaleshwor. The vehicles are also operated in less numbers.

In the wake of 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. Selling tea is on 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 the children, elderly ones and women in postpartum hard.