Finance
As part of efforts to reduce the number of instances of sunstroke, the Special Relief Commissioner (SRC) ordered the Director of Sports and Youth Services to limit outdoor sports activities on Saturday due to the worrying rise in temperature in various districts of Odisha.
The Odisha government has been informed, the Additional SRC wrote in a letter, that outdoor game activities such as football, hockey, and cricket are being played in various parts of the state during the sweltering summer months. Disappointed, the SRC instructed the Sports Department to limit enforcement of any outside sports during the sweltering summer hours of 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.
“Keeping in view the weather conditions it is requested to take precautionary measures and restrict all outdoor game activities like cricket, football, and hockey during hot summer. Strict enforcement shall be made on the restrictions of all outdoor sports activities stated above,” read the letter.
Eight people, five from Angul and one from each of Bhubaneswar, Mayurbhanj, and Sundergarh, have been admitted to hospitals following sunstroke, according to statistics provided by the Public Health Department. All of them are undergoing treatment at different hospitals. However, no sunstroke death has been reported in the state so far.
