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MIDNAPORE/KOLKATA: Polling workers headed to voting cubicles in rural Bengal for this Saturday’s panchayat surveys will be bring an uncommon product in their set: carbolic acid.
A six-page “list” of products to be turned over to ballot celebrations, released by the State Election Commission and sent to district magistrates, includes this disinfectant in addition to other obligatory products like tally boxes, tally documents and enduring ink. Carbolic acid belongs to a package that consists of 4 candle lights and matchboxes and, in many cases, a torch.
With the beginning of the monsoon, snakebites prevail in rural Bengal and carbolic acid is a recognized snake repellent. It prevails practice in backwoods to utilize carbolic acid to keep snakes at bay. On July 8, the day of ballot, IMD has actually anticipated light to moderate rain with thundershowers in both south and north Bengal.
Most snakebites in Bengal are reported in the monsoon months, in between June and August. At least 4 kinds of poisonous snakes – 2 kinds of cobras, Russell’s viper and the typical krait – are discovered in abundance in the state.
“During monsoon, snakes come out to hunt for their victim. As an outcome, snakebite cases zoom. However, just about 10%-15% of these are poisonous bites,” said the emergency situation department in-charge at Calcutta National Medical College, Dayal Bandhu Mazumdar, who is likewise a technical consultant to ICMR on snakebites.
“Carbolic acid is extremely destructive and has a strong pungent odor that can work as a deterrent to snakes,” said forensic medication teacher Somnath Das of Bankura Sammilani Medical College. According to Puja Ray, assistant teacher at Presidency University’s life science department, even a small odor of carbolic acid, which is exceptionally destructive, “makes a snake alter its path”.
A six-page “list” of products to be turned over to ballot celebrations, released by the State Election Commission and sent to district magistrates, includes this disinfectant in addition to other obligatory products like tally boxes, tally documents and enduring ink. Carbolic acid belongs to a package that consists of 4 candle lights and matchboxes and, in many cases, a torch.
With the beginning of the monsoon, snakebites prevail in rural Bengal and carbolic acid is a recognized snake repellent. It prevails practice in backwoods to utilize carbolic acid to keep snakes at bay. On July 8, the day of ballot, IMD has actually anticipated light to moderate rain with thundershowers in both south and north Bengal.
Most snakebites in Bengal are reported in the monsoon months, in between June and August. At least 4 kinds of poisonous snakes – 2 kinds of cobras, Russell’s viper and the typical krait – are discovered in abundance in the state.
“During monsoon, snakes come out to hunt for their victim. As an outcome, snakebite cases zoom. However, just about 10%-15% of these are poisonous bites,” said the emergency situation department in-charge at Calcutta National Medical College, Dayal Bandhu Mazumdar, who is likewise a technical consultant to ICMR on snakebites.
“Carbolic acid is extremely destructive and has a strong pungent odor that can work as a deterrent to snakes,” said forensic medication teacher Somnath Das of Bankura Sammilani Medical College. According to Puja Ray, assistant teacher at Presidency University’s life science department, even a small odor of carbolic acid, which is exceptionally destructive, “makes a snake alter its path”.
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