Three people are dead in four days in Saoner taluka. Three families shattered. And the administration’s answer? Drink buttermilk. Wear light clothes.
It started on Tuesday (May 20) — a 72-year-old man, tired and weathered, collapsed in a field at Nandagomukh village while working under a merciless sun. He never came home. Nobody scrambled. Nobody was held accountable. Then came Saturday (May 23), and the heat killed again — twice in a single afternoon.
Around noon, it was social worker Hitesh Bansod who found a body near the old Boregaon Road — not a government official, not a health worker, a concerned citizen. The dead man was Bhupendar Shrilal Bisen, just 38 years old, a migrant labourer from Katgajhari, district Balaghat, Madhya Pradesh, who had come to Saoner to work at Ghate Farm House in Yewri to earn a living. He earned a death instead. Hours later, Sunil Sudhakar Gharpe, 46, a local resident of Chaupura, was found lifeless near Durgamata temple. Again, it was Hitjyoti Aadhar Foundation — an NGO — that carried his body to Saoner Government Hospital. The state was nowhere.
Three deaths. Four days. One taluka. How many more before someone in power feels the heat?
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