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Maharashtra: BJP Chaddis are building a Shivaji statue that will cost the tax payer Rs 3,600 crores

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Maharashtra: BJP Chaddis are building a Shivaji statue that will cost the tax payer Rs 3,600 crores Empty Maharashtra: BJP Chaddis are building a Shivaji statue that will cost the tax payer Rs 3,600 crores

Post by Guest Thu Nov 10, 2016 10:01 am

It could pay for a micro-irrigation programme to bring water to thousands of farmers over two years; pay for new rural roads seven times over; electricity projects five times over; restore 300 medieval forts in Maharashtra.
But the Maharashtra government, on October 26, started work on the world’s tallest statue – of medieval Maratha monarch Shivaji – off Mumbai’s coast and intends to spend Rs 3,600 crore, at current estimates. Since it was first conceived 12 years ago, the budget for Shivaji’s statue has risen 35 times.
The state government bypassed legal procedure by getting an exemptionon February 5, 2015, from conducting public hearings on the statue’s construction – local fishermen say it will affect their fishing grounds, and the island – from the Union Ministry of Environment Forests and Climate Change.


http://scroll.in/article/821024/all-that-maharashtra-could-have-done-with-the-money-being-spent-on-shivajis-statue

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