City in a mouth hugli. Entrance to a city

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That grey a smoke over a city which we saw from the plane, has appeared a smog. It is the present scourge kalkutttsev. From it slezjatsja eyes, are irritated mucous membranes of bodies of breath. A smog exhaust gases, caustic kizjachnyj form a smoke, emissions of the industrial enterprises in damp kalkuttsky air. City air poison more than 150 thousand cars. Lorries and the buses working on diesel fuel are especially terrible. They reserve black suffocating loops. Twice, and even three times a day are kindled more than 100 thousand house centres - more often it simply fires in streets and in court yard. 2150 enterprises round the clock smoke. According to National institute of studying of environment, daily on a city 250 tons of deposits from a smoke, 75 tons of dioxide of sulphur and okisi nitrogen drop out. It is not surprising, that 50 percent of townsmen suffer from respiratory diseases.

At entrance to a city behind the channel the attention involves the whole quarter of new modest three-storyed houses. Them have constructed for poor men. And opposite, through the channel, - settlement from the dwellings representing something an average between a dugout and a tent. Quite often it is a skeleton from the sticks, covered with pieces of plywood, a tin, rags. They were closely stuck one to another. The Doors-holes, any windows. But is a slum and other type. In the street Radzhendra Mallika I have visited the city centre in trushchobnom quarter Dzhorosanko, hidden for a high wall. The labyrinth of its narrow small streets consists of stone boxes without a forward wall. People live as on a show-window. I have got acquainted with the dealer sweets Lakshmanom Kurmi. It well-founded in comparison with other inhabitants of slums the person. With the wife, five sons and three daughters it occupies two rooms with the area about nine and seven square metres everyone. At other families on one such room. In Management on development of the Big Calcutta to me have informed, that in a three thousand city trushchobnyh quarters and in them there lives about three millions persons - third of all population.