which policy was like a slow poison ?
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Sixty-nine-year-old Renubala Ari of Deganga village in West Bengal’s North 24 Parganas district is counting her last days. But it is not her death that worries her.
Blind in both eyes and with painful lesions all over her body – the effects of arsenic poisoning (or arsenicosis) caused due to drinking contaminated groundwater – Renubala fears that her children and grandchildren are likely to meet the same fate as her, sooner or later.
If more than a million people in West Bengal suffer from debilitating arsenicosis, in Andhra Pradesh, and the northern and western States in particular, water poisoning takes another form: fluorosis.
Eighty per cent of the students at the Government Primary School at Khudabhakshpally in Nalgonda district of AP, show signs of fluorosis of various magnitude. Four of them use wheelchairs. Sirisha, 10, is a bright student. Her three siblings are down with fluorosis.
Sugunamma, her mother, doesn’t know why all of her four children have become ‘victims’. Sindhu, 8, the last of her children, looks normal but she looks four years younger than her age. “She has just begun to complain of severe pain in the hips,” Sugunamma says, wiping tears.
Arsenicosis is a sheer killer, turning into cancer over time; fluorosis destroys bones and saps the afflicted forever. Millions in India are condemned to lead wasted lives. It is to combat innumerable such cases of arsenicosis in 2,000 habitations and fluorosis in 12,000 rural habitations in the country that the latest Budget has proposed to provide Rs 1,400 crore towards water purification plants.
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The Subcidiary Alliance policy was like a slow poison