Palamu administration led by the DC Sameera S has set before it a task so far unheard of which is to relieve a dying and decaying river Batane.
Sameera S has put in place an IFS officer Satyam Kumar DFO Medininagar forest division and Shabbir Ahmad DDC Palamu to do this job.
The team is both young and experienced. The GIS technician is Akancha for the Batane river, only engaged since last week.
A small crowd of people followed this team which visited the Batane dam where Satyam Kumar asked for building dykes, check dams and barriers on the hillocks to save rain water from going astray.
The team saw illegal and haphazard mining of sand under the Batane bridge. Such was the mining of sand that it had exposed the underground portion of this huge pillar of this bridge to open. Its iron bars which ought to have been beneath the bed are fully exposed.
DDC Shabbir Ahmad told this correspondent "The DC has taken it as a task to rebuild and revive this Batane river. And we will show the DC it is done."
Satyam Kumar on the other hand said "For such a gigantic task there is no time line. Every day counts for it like this Saturday when we are out doing eye surveys of the locale and topography of the Batane river."
"This rainy season we will watch where our water goes down. We will also see where our water comes in. We will restore our down streams. After all, a river depends on the down stream." added Satyam Kumar.
The small crowd of the villagers was curious to know what the GIS means in regard to the river. There came the block pramukh at the Batane dam site asking if there would be any check dam.
Batane river is a victim of haphazard mining of stones and boulders. Such is the haphazard mining of sand that stone mafiosi have damaged and destroyed the underground water table. Its adverse impact is on the river and streams.
Satyam Kumar and Shabbir Ahmad both are hopeful of reliving the Batane river with people's support and Nature's proximity.