Central Railway's approval for Navi Mumbai Municipal Corporation to use Dighe D-Dam water for its residents has resulted in a war of words/credits between MNS and Shiv Sena in Thane.
Central Railway's approval for Navi Mumbai Municipal Corporation to use Dighe D-Dam water for its residents has resulted in a war of words/credits between MNS and Shiv Sena in Thane.
While Thane's Maharashtra Navnirma Sena unit says they were the first one to discover this dam and take up the matter with civic chief Sanjeev Jaiswal, the Sena is going around taking credit for the same.
On April 1, Navi Mumbaikars got the good news by CR that as it has allowed the NMMC to use water from Dighe dam or D-dam as it is known. "The NMMC has been granted permission for taking water by tankers from Dighe dam for three months while taking adequate precautions while disposal and collection of water," reads the letter from Vinit Kumar, secretary, CR.
This was in persuasion to the letter written by Thane MP Rajan Vichare from Sena to Union railway minister Suresh Prabhu on March 22. "It is a British-era dam which needs to be repaired and comes under ward No5 of Navi Mumbai. The NMMC has followed it up with the CR since 2005 to hand over the dam, but nothing happened," says Vichare in his letter.
Agreeing to this, the CR has agreed to let NMMC use water from the dam. However, Thane MNS refutes the claims of Sena saying they were the first one to bring the dam to everybody's notice. "We wrote to Jaiswal on March 15 that this D-dam can be used to meet the daily water requirements of Mumbra and Kalwa residents who are reeling under 60-hour water cuts," says Avinash Jadhav from MNS.
"While the letter written by MP Vichare to Prabhu is dated March 22. This clearly shows that we were the first ones to take up the issue and now Sena has jumped into the fray to take the credit," he adds.
He also said that even Thane residents should be allowed to use the water from this dam. "After we discovered the dam, Sena says they have been following up the issue since 15 years. They have been in power and still were not able to achieve it then. Why are they now taking the credit for our discovery? This is clearly politics over water," he says.
About the British-era dam
Spread over 15 acres, Dighe dam was built by the British when they wanted to build rail network beyond Thane. They had brought in a lot of workers and to meet their water necessity this dam was constructed
It is surrounded by hills from three sides and in the rainy season the rain water gets collected in it. This water lasts throughout the year and villagers from neighbouring areas use the water from the dam.
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