Buses submerged at Chiplun bus depot last Thursday.
MUMBAI: When water level started rising in Chiplun in Ratnagiri district last Thursday, the manager of the MSRTC bus depot, who managed to reach his office around 4.30am braving the floods, faced an arduous task: to prevent Rs 9 lakh daily revenue kept there from getting destroyed.
With the whole area flooded, Ranjeet RajeShirke realised that only the roof of one of the submerged buses was a safe bet. He and six of his team members climbed atop a bus around 5.30am and stayed there for nine hours holding on to a bag containing the cash before NDRF rescued them.
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Officials said the thermal plants will produce oxygen through its existing ozonation plants. There will be no hurdle in the routine electricity generation work at the power stations
MUMBAI: Energy minister Nitin Raut on Monday announced Maharashtra’s ‘Mission Oxygen’ campaign under which the state’s thermal power generators from Mahagenco will soon produce medical oxygen through existing ozonation plants and refill 1,454 jumbo cylinders daily to cater to the demand from government hospitals.
The plants include those at Parli, Koradi, Khaparkheda and Paras, which will be instrumental in daily production of 95% pure medical oxygen. There will be no hurdle in the routine electricity generation work at the power stations, reports Somit Sen.