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বাৰিষা ঘূৰি আহিছে; ৰাজ্যৰ প্ৰস্তুতি নাই
সাপৰ দংশনৰ ফলত হোৱা মৃত্যুৰ পৰা আৰম্ভ কৰি বন্ধ হৈ থকা নলা আৰু চাপযুক্ত বান্ধলৈকে, বৰষুণে ভাৰতৰ শক্তি, পানী, স্বাস্থ্য আৰু নাগৰিক ব্যৱস্থাৰ অডিট কৰে-যিটো পৰীক্ষা ৰাজ্যখনে এতিয়াও অতি অসমানভাৱে পূৰণ কৰে।
ঋতু আহি আছে
দক্ষিণ-পশ্চিম মৌচুমী বতাহ 12 জুনত উত্তৰ উপকূলীয় উৰিষ্যাত উপস্থিত হৈছিল, যিটো এক অস্বাভাৱিক ঘটনা, আৰু দুদিনৰ বিৰতিৰ পিছত সোমবাৰে ৰাজ্যখনৰ উপকূলীয় জিলাসমূহলৈ আৰু আগবাঢ়ি গৈছিল। নাগালেণ্ড ৰাজ্য ডি
Rain Is Not the Enemy
It bears stating plainly that the monsoon is a blessing before it is a burden: it fills reservoirs, replenishes water sources and waters fields across the country. The honest difficulty is that its bounty is uneven. The same season that advances in Odisha has begun with insufficient rainfall in Maharashtra, where forecasters now expect better rain. In Goa, concern over water levels in the Anjunem Dam has led the Water Resources Minister to say water may be drawn from the Pissurlem mining pits to the Padoshe water treatment plant if the monsoon does not improve. The rain is not the adversary. The adversary is a state apparatus that treats a recurring certainty as an annual emergency, improvised afresh each June.
Where the State Shows Up
Credit is due where preparation is visible. The Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation has launched a special monsoon sanitation drive running until June 25 to remove legacy municipal solid waste, construction and demolition waste, green waste and silt caused by recent rains. Telangana Southern Power Distribution Company CMD Patil has inspected the 11 kV Venugopal Nagar feeder from the 33/11 kV Tirumalagiri substation in the Secunderabad circle, examining poles, conductors, insulators and distribution transformers. The Telangana government has approved 140 additional vehicles and a DRF to strengthen HYDRAA's emergency, rescue and monsoon operations across Hyderabad. These are the right instincts — anticipate, inspect, equip. Yet preparedness is measured not by the announcement but by whether streets drain, transformers hold and rescue teams arrive on time.
What the Water Reveals
Yet the same season exposes what preparation has not reached. In Odisha, experts warn that snakebite-related deaths remain a serious public health concern, with delayed treatment beyond the 'golden hour' claiming lives and more people dying of snakebites than of many natural disasters. On Goa's Kulty Plateau in Canacona, the bullfrogs that once marked the rains have failed to appear though the ponds are full and the streams flow — an ecological silence that greens read with concern. And one forecast cautions that even during the monsoon, a deadly mix of heat and humidity could leave as many as 70 crore people in distress. These are not simply the acts of an unkind sky. They are the measurable costs of weak drainage, delayed treatment and insufficient warnings — borne first by the vulnerable.
The Verdict
The pattern is the indictment. The capacity plainly exists — the sanitation drives, the feeder inspections and the new response fleet prove it — but it is summoned in bursts, city by city, as though discovered afresh each season. A republic that knows the rains will arrive cannot keep meeting them with heroics. When a life is lost to snakebite because treatment comes too late, the failure is not meteorological; it is administrative, and it is foreseeable. Preparedness that is episodic and uneven is not preparedness; it is luck wearing a uniform. The measure of a competent state is not how dramatically it rescues, but how quietly and routinely it prevents the emergency from arriving at all.
The Way Forward
The remedy is unglamorous and entirely feasible. Snakebite-prone belts need treatment access close enough for the golden hour to mean something in practice. Pre-monsoon drainage, power and water audits — of the kind the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation and the Telangana Southern Power Distribution Company now demonstrate — should become a standing public calendar in every State, published ward-wise, feeder-wise and clinic-wise before the first storm, not after the first tragedy. Heat-humidity advisories must travel inside the same forecasts that track the rain. And the vanishing bullfrogs of Canacona deserve attention, not a shrug. Govern the monsoon as the certainty it is, and the season that now exposes the state can begin to showcase it.
এপিসোডিক আৰু অসম প্ৰস্তুতি হৈছে প্ৰস্তুতি নহয়; ই হৈছে ইউনিফৰ্ম পিন্ধা ভাগ্য।
At stake is the State’s constitutional duty to protect life, public health, environmental safety and effective remedies during a predictable monsoon season.
Monsoon Preparedness Accountability Rules
Parliament should require every State and urban local body, through Disaster Management Act rules, to publish a pre-monsoon readiness register by a fixed annual deadline covering drains and silt removal, power-feeder inspections, dam and water contingency plans, emergency rescue capacity, and snakebite treatment access. The register should be proactively disclosed under RTI, updated through the season, and paired with a time-bound citizen grievance mechanism for blocked drains, unsafe power infrastructure, delayed emergency response and treatment access failures.
আপোনাৰ সাংবিধানিক অধিকাৰ
এই কাহিনীত সংবিধানে কি নিশ্চয়তা দিয়েThe State shall endeavour to protect and improve the environment and safeguard forests and wildlife.
Directive PrincipleNo person shall be deprived of life or personal liberty except by a fair, just and reasonable procedure established by law — read by the courts to include dignity, privacy, health, a clean environment and livelihood.
Fundamental RightThe right to move the Supreme Court directly to enforce fundamental rights — called by Dr Ambedkar "the heart and soul of the Constitution." The courts can issue writs such as habeas corpus and mandamus.
Fundamental RightThe State shall regard raising the level of nutrition and public health as among its primary duties.
Directive PrincipleWhat this editorial rests on
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