Borewell Digging A dragon to Death
Bhagabat Padhi,Odishabarta
Gajapati:Recently a child of age 5 years died at Chattarpur of MP by slipped into borewell deeper depth. Such incidents now regular in India where so far 70℅ slipped persons not rescued where borewells had been graved & since 2009 more than 40 children died. Rescue operations failed due to lack of guidelines maintenance & other situations. Bore well introduced on 1970 which is usually 4.5 inches to 12 inches by using bore well technology taps into aquifer water bearing soil or rock layer. As water is subject for drinking purpose particularly in rural areas where scarcity of water felt. To identify those water level areas local old persons can be taken advice where water can be lifted. More so unique guidelines needed by government officials with 15 days in advance. Drilling agencies must register at district administrations in which areas they go on digging for bore well.
Need of safety to cordon those areas to prevent from any persons entrance where bore well to be holed. Once it is functional that area should be strictly sealed to avoid untoward death.
Supreme Court of India intervened on laid down safety measures to be followed by state governments on 2010.The guidelines include the concern government officials are required of bore well construction to be informed before 15 days by drilling agency. It is necessary to install barbed wire fencing on surrounding to avoid further incidents.
Bore well water generally safe for drinking purpose. But yet not 100℅ guaranteed as clean water due to its hardness, contaminants. Borewell water still fill with bacteria, virus and heavy metals such as arsenic, fluoride, lead & so on.
Those dried areas too has cast iron which mix as contamination part which is not useful for drinking. Kerala state taken initiatives to track & later abandoned to dig bore well in those areas. That should be followed by other states when & where bore well to be digged.
Rescue operations is a major part that depends on type of soil, diameter area & depth at which the victim is earthed down, to be immediately covered by umbrella like device to place under victim & then opened up. Rope rescue operation too needed to bring top by tying the victim.
So as prevention is better than facing any danger NDRF(National Disaster Response Force) has a creative role on strong strike on rescue part.
