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Huh? Crap or Crab? ABNN Minister said CRABS caused his Dam to break! serveral villiages gone at last 18 dead! GVGT!

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Deadly India dam break blamed on… ‘gathering of crabs’
Published time: 5 Jul, 2019 08:15 Edited time: 5 Jul, 2019 09:22
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Tiware Dam in India after it was breached during heavy rainfall. July 3, 2019. © AFP / STR
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A water official in India took flak after he suggested that crabs caused a deadly dam breach which destroyed several villages and claimed multiple lives.
The Tiware Dam in India’s central Maharashtra state was breached on Tuesday night during heavy rain. Water from the dam flooded several villages, killing at least 18 people.
An official probe was launched into the incident. But Maharashtra legislator and Water Conservation Minister Tanaji Sawant made headlines on Thursday when he told reporters that the dam, built in the early 2000s, worked fine before and that crabs were actually to blame for the tragedy.
There were no leakages earlier. Leakage happened after a large number of crabs gathered around the dam. Locals brought the issue to our notice and our department acted on it. The incident is unfortunate.
According to local media, the official made his comments while trying to dismiss the question whether the dam had construction flaws.
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The minister’s remarks did not go down well with some of his political opponents, who accused him of making up excuses and ignoring corruption and mismanagement by local authorities.
“You want to save a big, corrupt shark and blaming poor crabs? This cannot be tolerated. There must be an inquiry and he must be punished,” spokesperson for the Nationalist Congress Party Nawab Malik said.
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‘Crabs caused Tiware dam breach that killed 18’: Maharashtra water minister
On being asked if the construction was weak, the minister said that he came to know the shoddy construction work from the farmers and villagers of the area.
india Updated: Jul 05, 2019 09:07 IST


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National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) has recovered 18 dead bodies so far from the dam, which breached in Ratnagiri district on June 3, creating a flood-like situation downstream.(Anil Phalke)






Maharashtra Water Conservation Minister Tanaji Sawant on Thursday said that the breach in Tiware dam in Ratnagiri district of Maharashtra, which claimed the lives of 18 people, was due to a large number of crabs that gathered around the dam, thereby causing leakage.
“There were no leakages earlier. Leakage happened after a large number of crabs gathered around the dam. Locals brought the issue to our notice and our department acted on it. The incident is unfortunate,” Sawant told media persons here.
On being asked if the construction was weak, the minister said that he came to know the shoddy construction work from the farmers and villagers of the area.
National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) has recovered 18 dead bodies so far from the dam, which breached in Ratnagiri district on June 3, creating a flood-like situation downstream.
Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis expressed his grief over the loss of lives in the incident and ordered an inquiry in the matter which will be helmed by a Special Investigation Team (SIT) under a secretary rank official.
Fadnavis has also asked his Water Resources & Irrigation Minister Girish Mahajan to visit
Ratnagiri and provide relief to affected families.
Eighteen bodies were recovered till Thursday after the dam breached due to heavy rain causing a flood-like situation in seven downstream villages.
Twelve houses near the dam have been washed away. Two National Disaster Response Force were deployed for relief operations.
Bhendewadi area is also affected due to this incident which falls under Tiware Gram Panchayat.
(This story has been published from a wire agency feed without modifications to the text. Only the headline has been changed.)
 
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Crabs responsible for Tiware dam breach: Maharashtra minister
PTI | Updated: Jul 5, 2019, 12:50 IST






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  • Shiv Sena minister in Maharashtra, Tanaji Sawant, held crabs responsible for the dam burst incident in Ratnagiri
  • Sawant said there was huge problem of crabs in the dam and because of that the recent leakages took place
  • At least 19 persons were killed in the dam burst incident in Maharashtra
Tiware dam breached near Ratnagiri on July 3
MUMBAI: Maharashtra minister Tanaji Sawant has attributed the breach in Tiware dam in Ratnagiri district, which claimed the lives of 18 people, to the weakening of wall by crabs.
Calling the dam breach incident a "natural calamity", the newly-appointed water conservation minister also said whatever is destined to happen, will happen.
Talking to reporters, Sawant on Thursday said officials and locals had informed him that a large number of crabs have weakened the wall of the dam.
"The wall was weakened by a large number crabs and after it was pointed out to the government officials, some remedial measures were taken up," he said.
"The SIT appointed by chief minister Devendra Fadnavis will come up with its findings soon and we will come to know what exactly went wrong," he said.
The dam, located in Chiplun tehsil, breached late Tuesday night following torrential rains in the coastal Konkan region.
The minister also hinted that the incident could also be a fallout of torrential rains in the dam's catchment area.
"In just eight hours, 192 mm rainfall was recorded in the catchment area of the dam. As per my information, the water level of the dam increased by eight metres in eight hours. The villagers wonder whether it was due to a cloudburst," he said.
But it will eventually be discussed in the committee, the minister added.
"It was a tragedy, but I think you cannot change your fate. Whatever is going to happen, will happen. It was a kind of natural calamity," he said.
When asked about whether the repair works of the dam was shoddy, he said, "We realised it only when water started accumulating in the dam."

Last year, water resources minister Girish Mahajan had stirred up a controversy after he attributed a major breach in the right wall of the Mutha canal in Pune, which had inundated parts of the city, to rats, other rodents and crabs.
"The canal wall caved in as rats, rodents and crabs had been gnawing away at it, burrowing holes in the walls foundation," he had said.


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Maha minister blames crabs for Tiware dam breach, NCP calls for their ‘arrest’
On Friday, NCP workers, led by party general secretary Jitendra Awhad, walked into the Naupada police station with crabs and urged the cops to "arrest" them.





By Express Web Desk |New Delhi | Updated: July 5, 2019 8:00:14 pm




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NDRF personnel and local trekkers search for people washed away after the Tiware dam in Chiplun breached following heavy rain in Ratnagiri, Maharashtra. (Express photo: Arul Horizon)
Maharashtra minister Tanaji Sawant has blamed crabs for weakening the wall of Tiware dam in Ratnagiri district, which claimed the lives of 18 people, prompting the Opposition NCP to call the remark “height of brazenness”.


Calling the dam breach incident a “natural calamity”, the newly-appointed Water Conservation Minister also said whatever was destined to happen, would happen.
“The wall was weakened by a large number crabs and after it was pointed out to the government officials, some remedial measures were taken up. The SIT appointed by Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis will come up with its findings soon and we will come to know what exactly went wrong,” Sawant told reporters.
Several houses in Chiplun taluka of Ratnagiri district in Maharashtra were swept away when the wall of the Tiware dam breached Tuesday night following heavy rain over the last 48 hours.

The Tiware dam, located off the Karad-Chiplun Road, had undergone major repairs just two months ago but around 5 pm Tuesday a minor irrigation tank, constructed only in 2004, started leaking again. Amid the incessant rain, the dam breached around 9.30 pm, flooding seven villages downstream.
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Alleging that Sawant was “blaming crabs to save a big corrupt fish”, NCP said it bid to protect local Shiv Sena MLA Sadanand Chavan, who according to media reports, happens to be a contractor of the dam.
On Friday, NCP workers, led by party general secretary Jitendra Awhad, walked into the Naupada police station with crabs and urged the cops to “arrest” them.



“Don’t blame crabs as you defend a big corrupt fish. A judicial probe must be carried out into the entire episode and the guilty MLA must be punished,” NCP chief spokesperson Nawab Malik said.
Lashing out at Sawant, senior NCP leader Ajit Pawar asked why did the Shiv Sena leader accept the charge of a minister if he were to blame animals for a tragedy. “When will the BJP-Shiv Sena ministers accept their failures?” he asked on Twitter.
In Kolhapur, a youth wing of NCP presented a memorandum to Shahupuri police station, demanding registration of a ‘case’ against crabs.
“If the minister thinks crabs caused the breach, then a case should be registered against the crabs under Section 302 of IPC for murder,” NCP state youth wing chief Mehboob Sheikh said.
(With inputs from PTI)
 
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