HC treats reports on growing...

HC treats reports on growing...

                                                      

Committee to suggest mechanism to ensure balanced development and change all existing parameters to calculate the backlog. With new State Government headed  by Devendra Fadnavis assuming office promisingamuch better deal to Vidarbha and to protect sanctity of all constitutional mechanisms, this suo motu PIL, will be keenly watched in coming weeks.

According to reports, Vidarbha which marged into Maharashtra in 1960 by then leadership ignoring recommendations of First State Reorganisation

Commission (SRC), remained backward and after Dr Dandekar Committee quantified the backlog, measures undertaken failed lo wipe out the backlog. Finally, the President of India constituted Statutory Development Board, but even this experiment has gardly succeeded.

As per data compiled by Vidarbha Statutory Development Board (VSDB) Expert member Adv Mudhukar Kimmatkar only 9.87 percent employment opportunity has been given to Vidarbha region, while 50 per cent posts have been bagged from those from Pune region, 10 per cent from Nashik and 6 per cent from Konkan region.Total 66.93 per cent jobs were given to Rest of Maharastra while Marathwada bagged only 23 per cent jobs, Amravati division you the got 7 per cent jobs while Nagpur dieision got only 2.67 per cent jobs. This is enormous injustice towards people of the region, he claimed In irrigation sector, backlog of Vidarbha is ever mounting and region is deprivedol its irrigation potential due to unholx nexus between contractors and their political masters. Even the legally binding directives issued by Governor have been brazenly flouted by governments in last one decade and only financial backlog has been eradicated while physical backlog persists. Maharashtra has 58 per cent forest, of which maximum is in Vidarbha. Gadchiroli district has maximum 85 per cent forest and

due to zudpi jungle issue, the development projects have been stalled. At least 37 tehsils of Vidarbha are Naxal-affectcd and speedy development is the only answer, the report has slated. Besides backlog of agricultural pump is matter of concern.

Then Chief Minister of Maharashtra Yashwantrao Chavan had made a solemn promise in the legislative assembly on March 1960. "I wish to assure the people of Vidarbha that they need have no apprehension that their legitimate in lerests will not be prolecled. on the other hand, they will be zealously guarded and will be treated as a sacred trust of the future Maharashtra Government, The terms of what is known as the Nagpur pact will be honoured and wherever possible, something more will be done." However, as per these reports, during last five decades. Vidarbh ites got step-motherly treatment and their legitimate expectations were not honoured and this saga of injustice has been well documented by Planning Commission itself.

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