Female foeticide, water crisis in 15 districts of the state and farmers' suicides are some of the issues likely to dominate the three-week-long monsoon session of the Maharashtra legislature, which begins today. Besides, alleged irregularities in irrigation projects and superseding of the Belgaum Municipal Corporation might also be discussed in the session, being held days after a massive blaze gutted top floors of the state secretariat. Deficient rainfall has taken a toll on the sowing of kharif crops in the state. This, coupled with reports that there is only nine per cent water supply in state reservoirs has given the opposition ample ammunition to attack the Congress-NCP government. The Raj Thackeray-led MNS has claimed that the figures about toll collection available with the state government were "bogus" and party workers kept a watch on the toll booths to gauge the exact figures.

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