In addition to the regular maintenance works, the NDSA team that visited the project some time ago, had also identified certain shortcomings in the maintenance.
Three personnel of the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) were killed and 15 others injured in the exchange of fire with naxals in Chhattisgarh's Bijapur district on Tuesday, an official said.
More than 260 women displayed their courage, valor, and determination through diverse formations, including Chandrayaan, Sarvatra Suraksha, Abhivadan, and Yog Se Siddhi
The attack was befitting reply to the recently launched ‘Operation Kagaar-Surya Shakti’ by the Brahmanical Hindutva fascist rulers to eradicate the Maoist movement and to the ongoing onslaught on adivasis, said Pratap
He pointed out that the recent incident of December 13 has also brought to the fore issues relating to the security of the institutions which are the core of our democratic practices and ethos.
"Four suspects have been taken into custody and an intensive search of the surrounding area is being done by the CRPF, Cobra and District Force," the police added.
Union Minister of State (Home Affairs) Nityanand Rai informed the Rajya Sabha that the number of voluntary retirement cases in Central Armed Police Forces (CAPFs) and Assam Rifle (AR) varies from year to year and no trend in this regard has been observed.
The CRPF personnel were deployed following the intervention by the Union Home Ministry to defuse the tension between the two states over the dam across Krishna River.