Yamunanagar: Due to the ash coming out of the thermal power plant for the past two years, every second person in the Ratanpura village of Yamunanagar playing havoc on the lives of the residents in the area is suffering from some disease or the other due to the ash coming out of the thermal power plant near the area. According to residents of village they cannot sit in the open courtyard of their house due to this, children and the elderly have to face lot of health problems and women remain busy in cleaning the houses all day long, and the situation have become so worst that people of Yamunanagr district in Haryana do not want to get their children married in this village? as well as guests have also stopped coming to the houses of villagers, they are not even visiting relatives saying that they would suffer illness ever since the thermal power plant has been set up in the area.
The residents of village while talking to media persons said relatives have stopped coming for past two years, no male youth of the village has remained healthy and neither has any young girl of the village have been left healthy as a result of the black ash coming out of the thermal power plant which has blackened their present and has also pushed their future into the dark. The villagers say that they are getting sick, if someone comes to the village to get a boy or girl married, then seeing the ashes scattered in the house as well as in the village all around, people quietly leave saying that they will go to the house, consult for the decision.
Information reveals that Prime Minister Narender Modi is laying the foundation stone of the third unit of thermal power plant. The villagers said that they are not against the expansion of the thermal power plant, it should happen, but they should also be saved by shifting the village. The foundation stone of the Deenbandhu Thermal Power Plant in Ratanpura village of Gram Panchayat Kayampura on Saharanpur Road was laid by the then Prime Minister PV Narasimha Rao in March 1993 through a remote village from Faridabad. Its construction started in the year 2005 by then Chief Minister Bhupendra Singh Hooda and was developed in 2008. Earlier, in the year 2004 also, the then Chief Minister Om Prakash Chautala had laid the foundation stone of the thermal power plant in thousands of acres of land acquired for its construction.
Information reveals that so far, two units of 300 MW each are producing electricity supplied in the area. Now PM Narendra Modi is going to lay the foundation stone of the third unit of 800 MW on April 14.
The residents of area said, the situation is such that every second person in Ratanpura is suffering from some disease or the other, women are always busy in cleaning the houses all day, clothes cannot be dried in the open and residents of village cannot sit in the open courtyard of their houses due to pollution spread everywhere. They said, due to pollution and suffocation with this their children and the elderly have to face a lot of health-related problems, their guests have stopped visiting their place whenever they go with a marriage proposal for their sons and daughters, they are flatly refused for the last three years.
There are two villages in Kayampura Panchayat: Kayampura and Ratanpur having nearly 350 houses in these villages with population of over 2300 persons residing there, having two wards in Kayampura Panchayat and six wards in Ratanpura where mostly people of ‘Kshatriya’ and scheduled caste communities live here. The media persons met Sarpanch Rajkumar of village Kyamapura and Jitendra Rana, former Sarpanch of village Ratanpura who said that the ash flying from the thermal enters the human body and also accumulates in the nearby fields and spoils the crops. Most of the residents of these villages, especially children and old-aged persons remain sick, especially suffering from eye diseases and respiratory disorders all the time. Many meetings have been held regarding this problem but to no result, unless the village is shifted, there is no relief from this problem.
