The two students were rushed to SSG hospital in critical condition
VADODARA: Two students of the Baroda Medical College drowned in the Mahisagar river near Rasulpur in Savli taluka of Vadodara district on Saturday.
The students were members of a group that had gone for picnic there.
According to sources, a group of 12 second year MBBS students had gone to Rasulpur which is a popular site for outings and picnics amongst residents of Vadodara.
The group entered the river to bathe. However, the heavy current in the river dragged away four students including the deceased Siddhi Shah (20) and Amogh Goel (20).
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Around 15-20 people end lives at this Mahi River stretch every year
VADODARA/ANAND: Earlier this month, Rohit Prajapati, 37, had given up on his life as his estranged wife had refused to patch-up and had decided to live separately.
On January 19, Prajapati, a resident of Manjalpur, jumped in Mahisagar river from the Vasad bridge to end his life. But he was rescued by fishermen and later counselled by Anand police to start life afresh. Prajapati had lost all hopes but words of positivity from cops got engraved in his mind to restart his life.
Within 10 days, Prajapati moved to Goa and has now taken up a job at a restaurant.
GPCB teams have been collecting samples from the bank of the river
VADODARA: For the second time within a month, thick layers of yellow-white foam, visibly toxic, started floating on the surface of Mahisagar river on the outskirts of the city raising serious concerns on Sunday.
Like on the day of Diwali, the froth was found floating on both the sides of the river at Kareli, Dabka, Mujpur and Umaraya villages located just 25 km away from Vadodara.
Gujarat Pollution Control Board (GPCB) reached collected samples, but environment activists have demanded continuous monitoring for three months. “Mahisagar river is in ICU. It is no longer a question of some villages located on the banks of the river. If nothing is done now, it will damage Vadodara’s water sources,” said Rohit Prajapati of Paryavaran Suraksha Samiti (PSS).
It came to notice of civic body that water was entering the city’s water supply system from the Mahisagar river
VADODARA: In a first, the Vadodara Municipal Corporation (VMC) slapped notices to two industrial units suspected of polluting Mahisagar river. The civic body took the unprecedented step after it came to light that the water polluted by the industries was making its way into the city’s water supply system.
VMC officials had recently noticed supply of yellowish water in a water tank in some areas. The engineers started working backwards in an attempt to reach the source of the coloured water.
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