During the summers, in the crowded informal settlement she calls home in Ahmedabad, India, Meenaben would lay wet jute on the floor and hay on the roof of her home to lower the temperature inside. If she didn’t, her home would get so hot her husband would sometimes be hospitalized with heatstroke.
Meenaben’s home is made of building materials that trap heat; without air conditioning and insulation, her home can reach upwards to 45 degrees C (113 degrees F) inside. Extreme temperatures aren’t the only threat. During the monsoon season, Meenaben would watch rising flood waters destroy her neighbors’ homes, leaving fetid pools of water in their wake.
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AIZAWL: Mizoram government sources here said that the Basic Services to the Urban Poor (BSUP) building at Falkland locality is being prepared for lodging people who crossed over from Myanmar. This was a quarantine facility at the height of the Covid-19 pandemic last year.
Unofficial sources have informed that over 300 refugees have taken shelter in Aizawl, including some members of the National League for Democracy who were elected to the parliament of Myanmar in the November 2020 elections.
Meanwhile, leader of the Aizawl-based NGO United for Democracy in Myanmar, Ramlawma, told TOI that the Myanmar army indiscriminately fired at protesters on Palm Sunday (March 28) at Kalaymyo township, forcing the desperate protesters to shoot back.