In the past four years, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) led Government in Maharashtra has delivered an excellent performance in every sector, said Devendra Fadnavis, Chief Minister. In an informal interaction with mediapersons at Ramgiri bungalow here on Saturday, he said that his Government had completed 118 irrigation projects, and had also doubled the annual average expenditure on agriculture.
Fadnavis circulated to media persons a 45-page note containing details of his Government’s performance in various sectors in four years, and comparison with the 15-year rule of Congress and Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) led Democratic Front (DF) Government. The main feature of the Government functioning in these four years has been ‘honesty and transparency’, stated the note.
As per the note, of 118 irrigation projects completed in four years, gorge-filling was done in 88 projects. As a result, the irrigation potential increased from 32 lakh hectares in 2014 to 40.58 lakh hectares in 2017.
Since the Government headed by Fadnavis took over, 27 per cent of the tenders pertaining to irrigation projects were awarded at Government rate, and 62 per cent at lesser than estimated rate. This resulted in the Government saving Rs 254 crore. Also, as part of the effort to cleanse the system, the Government cancelled 94 tenders collectively worth Rs 7,335 crore. In 113 cases, chargesheets were filed against the officers concerned, and action was ordered in 68 cases.
Till 2013-14, the actual irrigation from Gosikhurd project was 8,449 hectares only. Between 2014-15 and 2017-18, the actual irrigation from the project increased manifold to 47,557 hectares. Asked about extension of deadline for completion of Gosikhurd national project from 2019 to 2022, the Chief Minister said that all major works would be completed by 2019 and remaining components would be completed by 2022.
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