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Time of India
12 hours ago
- Health
- Time of India
Last of 7.5k BPL households relying on local water bodies provided tap connections
Panaji: The state drinking water department (DWD) recently identified 7,458 households in Goa, in remote areas like Netravali, which had access to drinking water, but not purified water. Tired of too many ads? go ad free now These last households have now been provided with tap connections, so they have access to a treated water supply. Most of these families were below poverty line (BPL) households, in remote or highland areas, and had access to water from wells, springs or water bodies. They were oblivious to the harm untreated water can pose and were satisfied with their existing arrangement, said DWD superintending engineer Nivrutti Parsekar. As they did not seek tap connections, the households remained out of the radar. 'Goa was the first to achieve 'Har Ghar Jal', but now it is the first state with 100% functional house tap connections, which is 'Har Ghar Nal Se Jal', under the Jal Jeevan Mission. We learnt that there are still some households without tap connections, never seeking it. We put meter readers on the job to point out these houses to us. The meter readers know as they go from house to house. We also asked the panchayats to identify such households,' said Parsekar. He said that engineers then visited these houses without connections and interacted with the residents to know their perspective on not seeking tap connections. 'In areas like Netravali, which are highland areas, they used water coming from springs. In other places, water was pumped from wells. In some cases, they were still walking a distance to draw water from local water bodies or wells. Tired of too many ads? go ad free now They were satisfied with this and did not know that it can be harmful to consume water which is not treated and purified,' said the superintending engineer. He said it took some convincing to make these BPL families understand the benefits of consuming treated water. 'We have then provided them with tap connections. Such families were left out due to oversight, being in remote areas, etc. We have managed to cover these unreached households within a span of one year,' said Parsekar, who was honoured under the Centre's Jal Jeevan Mission for making Goa the first state in the country to achieve 100% functional house tap connections.
Time of India
3 days ago
- Time of India
Cops bust extortion gangs, nab 5 for targeting bizmen
Panaji: Police on Monday busted two different alleged extortion gangs operating in the state. They arrested five people in connection with an alleged extortion racket targeting businessmen from Reis Magos and Keri-Sattari. In the first case, on June 9, Avinash Sinde of Reis Magos, in his complaint, said Tarzan Parsekar, a resident of Nagoa, Sagar Patil, and an unidentified man blocked his way with a car while he was proceeding to his residence. Sinde said that they abused him and threatened to kill him if he didn't pay the extortion amount of Rs 1 lakh per month as demanded by them. SP (North Goa) Rahul Gupta said that the accused persons have already extorted an amount of Rs 1 lakh from the complainant by putting him in fear of death on different occasions. Based on the complaint, Porvorim police registered an FIR in connection with the extortion case. Gupta said that the high court of Bombay at Goa cancelled Parsekar and Patil's bail in March 2024, and since then, the duo were not traceable and always on the run. Porvorim police station received a tip-off about the movements of Parsekar and Patil over the past five days. While Porvorim police were in pursuit of the accused, they somehow managed to escape through the internal roads of Pernem and took shelter at the house of one Ajit Satardekar at Pernem, Gupta said. by Taboola by Taboola Sponsored Links Sponsored Links Promoted Links Promoted Links You May Like Co-live Spaces Starting from 42L+ | Whitefield Sumadhura Learn More Undo 'Based on reliable information, Porvorim police, with the assistance of Pernem police, searched the house on Sunday and caught Parsekar and Patil on the first floor. The duo got in a scuffle with police personnel while attempting to flee,' the SP said. 'However, the team managed to detain Parsekar and Patil.' In the second case, Muaaz Shaikh, a resident of Keri, and his uncle Abbas Karol, a resident of Sanquelim, were wrongfully restrained while they were travelling in their car on June 8. 'Accused Salman Ruwabali Khan, 26, Khorlim, Old Goa, and Maksud Azad Khan, 29, a resident of Muslimwada, Bhoma, along with three unknown occupants and one more accused person riding a motorcycle, intercepted the complainant's vehicle and threatened the complainant's uncle by putting him under fear of death and demanded a ransom of Rs 10 lakh,' Gupta said. The accused fled the scene upon learning that the victim dialled the 112-emergency helpline. Based on the complaint, Bicholim police registered the FIR. 'Soon after the complaint, Salman and Maksud were apprehended,' Gupta said. 'During the interrogation, the arrested duo named the third accused, Siddharth, who provided information regarding the victim's travel route from Sanquelim to Mayem.'
