Maharashtra: Govt nod to additional Rs 12,672 crore for projects
The Maharashtra cabinet on Tuesday approved nearly Rs 12,672 crore additional funds to different projects in the state with the much-delayed Krishna Marathwada Irrigation Project getting a lion’s share of Rs 11,736 crore.
The Nagpur Metro in the hometown of Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis also received extra funds of Rs 599 crore, taking the total expenditure of the project to Rs 9,279 crore. The irrigation project had received its main administrative approval worth Rs 2,382 crore in August 2007. In 2009, the first renewed administrative approval worth Rs 4,845 crore was sanctioned with total area in Osmanabad and Beed districts of Marathwada to be benefited at an estimated Rs 1,14,731 hectare.
