Maharashtra Police has registered cases against six persons in the last two days in three districts, including Kolhapur and Ahmednagar which had seen communal tension recently, over social media posts and arrested one of them
The crowd at the mega rally at Chindi - the birthplace of Ahilyadevi - where CM Shinde made the announcement regarding renaming of Ahmednagar, was also shouting slogans demanding reservation.
Until a decade ago, marginal farmers lacked livelihood options but farmers' collectives are being set up using women’s micro finance self-help groups.
According to Ahmednagar Zilla Parishad Chief Executive Officer Ashish Yerekar, the purpose of the initiative was to ascertain the number of women in these four categories and formulate essential schemes. The department also has plans to arrange for their remarriage, he said.