In the aftermath of the devastating landslides that struck Irsalwadi in Khalapur and Taliye Varcha Aawad in Mahad, both villages located in the Raigad district, officials have become concerned. The landslides occurred on July 19, 2023, claiming 84 lives in Irsalwadi and on July 22, 2021, resulting in the deaths of 87 people in Taliye. Worryingly, neither village was included on the list of nine high-risk landslide-prone villages out of the 103 in the Raigad district.

According to the National Remote Sensing Centre (NRSC) of ISRO, Hyderabad, their latest Landslide Atlas of India, published in 2023, featured before and after satellite images of Taliye village, Mahad. The images captured on April 20, 2021, and October 15, 2021, respectively, provided a clear picture of the catastrophic landslide’s impact, showing rotational and deep translational failure along the main body of the landslide crown. Dr Yogesh Mhase, district collector, Raigad, confirmed the exclusion of both Taliye Varcha Aawad and Irsalwadi from the highly vulnerable category in the GSI report of 2018.