10,000 Litres Of Water Spent On Preparing Helipad For Minister Visit In Drough-Hit Maharashtra

Admin 16-Apr-2016 12:55:14 Inothernews

10,000 Litres Of Water Spent On Preparing Helipad For Minister Visit In Drough-Hit Maharashtra


Even as Latur and the entire Marathwada region are reeling under a severe drought, 10,0000 litres of water were wasted there on Friday to create a makeshift helipad for the arrival of relief and rehabilitation minister Eknath Khadse to the district. The waste of water attracted considerable criticism from activists as well as the opposition. Khadse, who was in Latur to receive the third water train from Miraj, travelled from there to Belkund, which is only 40 minutes away from Latur city by road, to inaugurate a water supply project. However, instead of taking the road, he took a helicopter, for whose landing a temporary helipad had been built by using 10,000 litres of water.



"He could have easily taken the road to reach Belkund, but in order to save 15-20 minutes of his time, he decided to fly and waste a lot of water," said state Congress spokesperson Sanjay Sawant.

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Khadse said that it was not true that 10,000 litres of water had been used. "The amount of water required for the helicopter to land safely was only used," said Khadse in a press statement. Sawant said on the one hand, the government was sending water trains to meet the villagers' needs, and on the other, the minister was using it to fly to Belkund in order to take credit for a water supply project.

Experts said the amount of water wasted in creating the helipad would have sufficed the drinking needs of an entire village.


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