Sitting amid the blackened remains of his home, 32-year-old Nikesh Gawali carefully broke open a half-melted plastic box with a screwdriver. His hands shook slightly, not out of fear, but out of hope. “I’m trying to find my daughter Aarti’s gold earrings,” he said quietly, still focused on the box. “She’s just five. I got them made recently after months of labour work.” The plastic box, warped and blackened by heat, was one of the few things left from his two-room house on the outskirts of Dhamangaon village . All around him lay ash, broken tin sheets and charred wooden beams. The walls had cracked under the heat and the front room’s tin roof had caved in completely. What remained was a blackened debris all around - almost nothing to suggest a home once stood there. Nikesh earns his living as an agricultural labourer, like many in the village. Work is uncertain and depends on the season. Those earrings weren’t just jewellery - they were a small dream, a reward for his hard work,...
The three-days heavy rainfall (June 21 to June 23) has caused severe damage to over 20,274 hectares of crop in Nagpur, Wardha, Chandrapur and Gadchiroli districts. Shockingly, 1964 hectares of agricultural land in 96 villages washed away due to flooding caused by the excessive rainfall, according to initial estimates by the State Agriculture Department in Nagpur.
Crops like cotton, tur, soybean, maize and vegetables have reported the maximum hit due to the rains. The agriculture department is waiting for a final report after completion of panchanamas being done by officials of the Revenue Department.
In Nagpur district, the excessive rains wreak havoc in 126 villages of Kamptee, Saoner, Kalmeshwar, Ramtek and Hingna tehsils where crops of cotton, tur, soybean, paddy, jowar and maize were severely damaged on 9,176.55 hectares.
As compared to Nagpur, the crop damage is more in Chandrapur district where massive destruction was reported on standing crops on 10,579.65 hectares in 155 villages of Warora, Chimur, Rajura, Jivati and Gondpipari tehsils. Crops of cotton, paddy, tur, soybean and vegetables were severely destroyed due to the rains.
Early estimates showed that around 418.70 hectares of crop area (mainly cotton, tur and soybean) in Seloo and Samudrapur tehsils of Wardha district were affected by the rains.
Gadchiroli district is the least affected among the four where crop of cotton over 100 hectares of area in Sironcha tehsil have reported damage during the excessive rainfall.
1964 ha of agriculture land washed away
Agriculture land in 96 villages of Nagpur and Chandrapur districts was washed away due to flooding, as per the reports of Agriculture Department. In Nagpur district, 248.3 hectares of agriculture land in 20 villages of Saner tehsil washed away due to flooding. Over 1716 hectares of agriculture land in 76 villages of Rajura, Jivati, Ballarpur and Korpana tehsils of Chandrapur was damaged and washed away in Chandrapur district.
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