The present load shedding, which was revived after October 2012, in Maharashtra is due to coal shortage and rapidly increasing power demand, said the energy minister Nitin Raut on Friday.
A division bench headed by Justice P B Varale had, last month, taken cognizance of a news item on how children of Khirvandi village in the state's Satara district have to travel by a boat to cross the Koyna Dam and then walk through a forest patch to reach their school daily.
The laudable object of 'Beti bachao, Beti padhao' (save the girl, educate the girl) can be achieved only by providing safe passage and friendly atmosphere to girl children by State, the Court observed.
Taking note of a report by India Today group's Mumbai Tak news portal, the Bombay High Court has taken a suo motu cognisance of children crossing a dam by boat to get to school in Satara district.