Nagpur: Police Ganeshpet has formed a suicide prevention committee involving vendors and shop owners around Lake Gandhisagar to prevent people from ending life with historic water.
Lake, around 275 years old and once stretched to Sitabuldi Tekdi, was the main source of drinking water for Nagpur in the past, but had turned to a unfortunate ‘suicide point’.
Last year, 44 people jumped to the lake to end the life, while 22 suicide here this year so far.
A woman, who came to an end to life with three daughters last week, was saved for the second time by warning the police Ganeshpeth on their day had saved the other three.
Even as suicide in the water still does not take place, NMC has compiled a plan for the RS34 Crore Beauty and the work has begun.
The plan also includes a peripheral fence, clean inside the lake and other steps to prevent suicide.
In accordance with the Sontakke Shramant historian, the lake was excavated by the Gond King Chand Sultan (1709-1735) to provide water to the newly formed Nagpur city, by combining 12 villages.
Then, Kings Bhosale has begun to use the lake for soaking idols Ganesh and also for recreational activities such as boating and fishing.
The lake was partly reclaimed to establish empress mills by Jamsetji Tata in 1876 and the water was first used for industrial purposes.
Senior Inspector Police Station Ganeshpeth Bharat Kshirsagar, working under the supervision of Zonal DCP Lohit Matani and CP Amitesh Kumar, said he had formed a core team consisting of tea kiosk owners, snack vendors, puncture repairs, coconut guards, and others to make sure they act As the first respondent if someone sees moving with suspiciously or waiting close to the lake.
“The sensitization meeting was also carried out to ensure that the local population warned the police regarding every suspicious person seen near the lake.
The cellphone number of senior officers has been shared with a member of the Committee for a quick warning,” Kshirsagar added that Diver Jagdish Khare, who held the record tracing hundreds of people Because of the sinking in Gandhisagar, and his wife constantly keep the lake’s edge under supervision.
To see vulnerable residents who reflect out suicide.
Kshirsagar said he had asked the former District Sports Officer (DSO) Jaiprakash Dubale, who was also a swimming coach, to train members of suicide prevention committees with a lightning course in the skills to save people from sinking.
“I have also contacted several psychiatrists and counselors for their associations so that people who were saved could be sent for counseling.
We just saved a woman who had twice tried to end life,” he said.
“We also plan to buy several equipment and install boards with positive messages,” said the Senior PI.
BJP Corporator Pramod Chikhale said the lake would turn into a tourist attraction that left the gloomy past into a suicide point.
“Apart from beauty, we tried to make sure no one could end the life here by setting up fences, nets and other steps.
Immediately, people will find that regaining healthy health and mental peace with beautiful scenery, the path around the lake, bridge, fountain and so on, “Chikhale said.