Nagpur: a 35-year-old woman from the village Khusba, more than 60 km from Nagpur, died when the locals rescued four others from meeting a watery grave after the boat in which they sailed upside down in the river on Thursday.
Fifth went to a neighboring village to work as a farm hand.
Parman and their employers Tijare own rowing boat.
Rowing is the only way for villagers to reach their fields, local residents said.
The late Gita Nimbarte, leaving a two-year-old daughter.
This accident raises a larger issue of a village located near the backwaters of Gosikhurd Dam.
Villages such as Khusba in Kuhi tehsil not included in the original relocation list because they are not under the submergence area of the dam.
However, the water backwater achieve their doors and locals living under the threat of flooding.
Now, with the water level in the dam gosikhurd at 245.5 meters the highest level, the situation is deteriorating.
Cut for water, the locals travel by boat to reach the other side.
A long detour, they said.
In Khusba, a village of 2,000, there are nearly a dozen ships.
The boat people teach themselves and others to the other side.
Demands for relocation to safer team still not delivered, the villagers said.
The problem has been exacerbated in the last three years.
Proposal to rehabilitate Khusba and about a dozen other villages remain under process since more than a year.
However, local leaders say they are much older demand.
Influential politicians have been able to get the village with their voters were included in the list of relocation, local leaders said.
The village was coveted in 1994.
More recently, 30-year old man rowing a boat himself dead.
The incident was not considered, say locals.
Former members of Zilla Parishad Shyam Dubey said that the Aam River has been flowing there since generations.
“Previously, water existed only during the rainy season.
In the older generation, members of the fishing community have a job to transport people.
In turn, people are paid in accordance with the food,” he said.
In accordance Dubey, the situation worsened after the dam was built and the water level gradually increased.
“Now, the level is at its peak at 245.5 meters further improve the water.
Slowly, other villagers buy their own dongas (small boat) and learn to paddle rather than being dependent on others,” he said.
There is another approach, but it took 10 km.
Even the road was cut off by a canal.
So, the only option left is to paddle through Backwater for more than half a km.
Residents Khusba have their fields on the other side.
“When they had rowed Bullocks swim,” Dubey claims and added that rehabilitation is the only way out.
A meeting was held three years ago under the leadership of prime minister Devendra Fadnavis and Nagpur later Guardian Minister Chandrashekhar Bawankule.
“Nothing happened after that.
Bachchu Kadu, now a minister of state for water resources in the government MVA, has led the protest.
Now it remains a problem that is forgotten,” said Dubey officials from the department of irrigation has been rushed to the village after the incident on Thursday , An official in the irrigation department accepts that the village came under a flood zone.
“Water immersion reach close to it but do not swallow the village located at an altitude.
The proposal was initiated in December 2020.
The decision is expected at the level of state government,” the official said.
Slow Ishwar former deputy sarpanch said that the local population relies mainly on the boat.
“Apart from the people who go to the other side most of the agricultural input even bring a small boat.
It was getting worse in the last two years,” he said.
The boat tragedy kills women from villages threatened by water dam
