Cancer Spreads Like Flu in Ghaziabad Villages Due to Toxic Water; Villagers Plead: 'Allow Us to Die'

• Toxic chemical-laden water from Tronica City industrial area factories in Ghaziabad's Loni region is causing a severe health crisis in nearby villages.
• Villagers allege that contaminated factory wastewater, despite treatment, is polluting groundwater and being used for farming, leading to a surge in serious diseases.
• Villages like Shakulpura, Jawali, and Sikrani are severely affected, with over 40 cancer patients in Shakulpura and nearly 100 in Jawali.
• The TDS level in village water has drastically increased from 100 to over 1500 in ten years, making it unfit for consumption and forcing migration.
• Loni MLA Nandkishore Gurjar acknowledged the issue, blaming official negligence and broken pipelines for the STP plant's improper functioning, promising to escalate the matter to CM Yogi Adityanath.

Why It Matters: Toxic industrial wastewater in Ghaziabad's Loni region is causing a cancer epidemic, forcing villagers to plead for death.