Only 25% water in dams across State
Mumbai; The water table levels in almost all 2,300 dams in Maharashtra, and four main dams in Mumbai, are dipping fast with only 25% of water remaining in them. In fact, officials pointed out that
the water storage in the State is the lowest in the last five years at 27% – 10,015 million cubic metres ( mcm) – as on April 16. It was 42% and 29% on the same day in 2011 and 2010 respectively. The water stock in Maharashtra was 34% and 36% in 2009 and 2008 respectively. State Water Resources Minister Sunil Tatkare has admitted that there is a shortage in several waterbodies. ” There is water shortage in the waterbodies across the six revenue divisions in the State. However, we have enough water in reserve to tackle the situation till June 10, when the monsoon is expected to arrive and recharge ground water,” Tatkare said on Tuesday.
Man butchers daughter over love affair
Mumbai: In a shocking incident in Govandi area of Eastern suburbs, a 19- year- old girl was brutally murdered by her 45- year- old father because she went against his will and got into an affair with a young man, living as a tenant with them. Shivaji Nagar police said the incident occurred between 12.30 am and 1am on Sunday in plot no. 30, p line, room no 5, Banganwadi slums of Govandi. The victim, Tabbasum Khatun Mohammed Kitabuddin Shah, died of head injuries, after her father Mohammed Kitabuddin Shah, a hawker by profession, bashed her head several times on their house wall. She was declared dead on admission by the hospital. Shockingly, the incident took place in front of Shahs wife, two other minor daughters and a minor son.
Governor demands report on tribal womans death
Mumbai: Following the death of a tribal woman in Mokhada taluka of Thane on April 22, Governor K Sankaranarayanan has asked State Tribal Secretary R C Sagar to submit a report on the incident.
The woman, who had died due to exhaustion while fetching water, was one of many tribals in the area facing scarcity of drinking water. Expressing concern over water and other major issues in tribal areas, the Governor has laid out a new set of directions to the State government to improve the situation in the tribal areas, which include: · Promotion of vocational education to help tribal youths get jobs · Allotment of more ration shops to self- help groups of tribal women · Social audit of ashram shalas in tribal areas · Greater representation to Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Groups in government jobs · Time- bound disposal of pending claims of Community Forest Rights under the Forest Rights Act The Governor also expressed the need for close supervision and monitoring of tribal welfare programmes by the State government. ” To confront the growing threat of Naxalism in tribal areas, we have to ensure that the benefits of development effectively reach people in these areas.
Money is there, welfare schemes are there, what is lacking is effective management and monitoring,” the Governor said. The Governor was addressing a meeting of Minister of Tribal Development Babanrao Pachpute, Principal Secretary, Tribal Development, R C Sagar, Tribal Development Commissioner Sambhaji Sarkunde and other tribal department officials at Raj Bhavan on Monday.
Bodies found in Gorai, Kurla
Mumbai: In two separate cases, two nude male bodies have been found in Gorai and Kurla areas of Mumbai. Even as the police have established that the person found in Kurla might have been murdered due to the injury marks found on his head and back, the body found in Gorai is in a highly decomposed state making it impossible for the police to look for any injury marks. The Gorai police found the body of a man aged around 35 years, who was swept ashore near the Louis Bungalow located near the beach.
The body has been sent to Bhagwati Hospital for an autopsy. In the second case, the Kurla police with the help of fire brigade fished out the body of a man aged around 45 from the Mithi River and sent it
