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85 percent industries are in just 5
Maharashtra districts
Friday November 09, 2012 09:33:55 PM,
IANS
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Pune: Only five of Maharashtra's 35 districts account for 85 percent of all
investment and industrialisation in the state, while other regions
are left high and dry, Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan said here
Friday.
Making this startling revelation, Chavan said that Mumbai, Thane,
Raigad, Pune and Nagpur account for 85 percent of all investment
and industries.
"There is a need to look beyond these regions, as they cannot
support any more industrialisation," Chavan said.
Union Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar, speaking at the same
function, said there should be no more industrialisation in Pune
and its neigbhourhood.
"There is no water supply to support further industrialisation;
industries should be diverted to other parts of the state," Pawar
said.
Chavan and Pawar were speaking at a seminar on industrialisation
organised as part of the ongoing platinum jubilee celebrations of
the Maharashtra legislature.
The chief minister said that Maharashtra is now compared with
other nations, rather than just being compared with other states
within India.
However, there was a need for industries and investments to go to
other parts of the state, including some of the most backward
regions of eastern and northern Maharashtra and Marathwada.
On his part, Pawar said now industrial investment should focus on
Vidarbha and Marathwada, as the existing five destinations were
virtually saturated.
This would ensure balanced development of the state as well as
open up newer employment and business avenues for the people in
other regions of the state, he said.
Offering an assurance that all regions would get consideration in
the state's new industrial policy, Industry Minister Narayan Rane
said that the requirements of small, medium and large enterprises
were all taken into consideration in the new policy.
"We are also giving special attention to the significant
Delhi-Mumbai industrial corridor, for which we have already
appointed an independent team of officers," Rane said.
Leader of Opposition in the legislative assembly Eknath Khadse
said that industrialisation must permeate all corners of the
state, to enable rural people to get employment.
Leader of Opposition in the legislative council Vinod Tawde said
the proposed Delhi-Mumbai Industrial Corridor should give a boost
to local industries, which in turn would help create more jobs for
the people of the state.
Maharashtra assembly Speaker Dilip Walse-Patil also spoke on the
occasion, at which top state leaders, industrialists and prominent
personalities were present.
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