Daytime cooking banned in parts of India to prevent accidental fires

Daytime cooking is banned in Bihar and some other parts of India to prevent accidental fires because, sizzling temperatures have already claimed over 300 lives this month in India. The ban on daytime cooking in some parts of the drought-stricken country is an attempt to prevent accidental fires that have killed nearly 80 more people.
This has been reported in nzherald.co.nz dated 30 April 2016.

The step to ban daytime cooking between 9am and 6 pm has been taken by the eastern state of Bihar this week after accidental fires combined with dry, hot and windy weather swept through shantytowns and thatched-roof houses in villages and killed 79 people. The dead included 10 children and five adults who lost their lives in a fire that happened during a Hindu prayer ceremony.
The people have, instead, been told to cook at night. Officials have also banned burning of spent crops or holding religious fire rituals. Anyone who defies the ban would risk a jail sentence of up to a year.
India is faced with drought conditions that have decimated crops, killed livestock and nearly 330 million do not have enough water for their daily needs. Rivers, lakes and dams have dried up in parts of the western states of Maharashtra and Gujarat, and the groundwater reservoirs are at just 22 per cent capacity. In some areas, the Government had to send tankers of water for emergency relief.


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