Mumbai: Union Agriculture Minister and Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) chief Sharad Pawar once again targeted the Congress on Saturday for what he termed as a collapse in the "decision-making process" in Maharashtra. Pawar, without naming Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan, said that on account of the dilly-dallying in taking major decisions, the state was losing out on big investments and mega industrial projects. The NCP is an ally of the Congress...
11:10 PM, Jun 02, 2012
Mumbai: Maharashtra Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan and state unit Congress president Manikrao Thakre on Wednesday targetted NCP for the party's debacle in recently held legislative council elections, almost putting the Sharad Pawar-led party on notice. "We decided to forget the past and fight the six legislative council polls from the local bodies constituencies with NCP. However our friends are not ready to give up their old habits. If this continues,...
01:16 AM, May 31, 2012
Mumbai: Dismissing the speculation that his decision to come out with a white paper on development of irrigation in the state was aimed at embarrassing ally NCP, Maharashtra Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan on Monday said a paradigm shift in the irrigation policy was needed. "There is no point in criticising anybody. I am answerable as the head of the state. The livelihood of about 57 per cent of the population...
06:58 PM, May 14, 2012
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11:58 PM, May 08, 2012
Prithviraj Chavan on Tuesday failed to get any assurance from Manmohan Singh on drought relief package. Maharashtra had demanded a 2,700 crore relief package from the Centre. ...
11:32 PM, May 08, 2012
New Delhi: Maharashtra Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan on Tuesday failed to get any assurance from Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on drought relief package. Maharashtra had demanded a 2,700 crore relief package from the Centre. The Prime Minister has asked Prithviraj Chavan to exercise discipline through proper use of allocations made by the Planning Commission. "I am confident that our demands of 1500 crore for drought relief and 1200 crore for...
05:54 PM, May 08, 2012
New Delhi: Congress General Secretary Rahul Gandhi met Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Tuesday with Maharashtra Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan to seek a special relief package for the drought-hit state. Nearly 12 districts in the state have been hit by a severe drought. The Prime Minister is expected to make an announcement soon in this regard. Chavan had reportedly sought a relief package of over Rs 2,200 crore and 5...
08:36 AM, May 08, 2012
Satara: Maharashtra Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan is set to meet Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Tuesday to seek a relief package for 12 drought-hit districts in his state. The state has reportedly sought a package of over Rs 2,200 crore and 5 lakh tonnes of foodgrain at BPL rates. However, CNN-IBN has found that quick-fix relief packages every year have failed to cure the problem and no long-term remedies have...
08:09 AM, May 08, 2012
Mumbai: A day after Maharashtra Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan dwelt on the difficulties in managing a coalition government, NCP chief Sharad Pawar, whose party is a ruling ally of Congress in state and Centre, on Saturday said running an alliance government was not that difficult. "Running a coalition government is an art," Pawar, whose party is sharing power with Congress in the state since 1999, said. The Union agriculture minister...
03:02 AM, May 06, 2012
Osmanabad: With Maharashtra Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan announcing bringing about a white paper on dipping irrigation potential in the state and examining the spending by the department, Anna Hazare on Saturday said he could give evidences against the corrupt officials, provided the government acts on them. "There are umpteen evidences of corruption in the irrigation department and so white paper should be released at the earliest," Hazare told a public...
01:35 AM, May 06, 2012
Mumbai: In a tacit admission of the unease in the alliance with NCP, Maharashtra Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan on Friday said that taking decisions is a much easier process when a single party is in power. "There is an important difference in the political situation that existed during Yashwantrao Chavan's tenure as Chief Minister and the one which exists today. Then, there was a single party rule, and once there...
02:47 AM, May 05, 2012
Mumbai: Anti-corruption crusader Anna Hazare will be back in action on Tuesday though this time his campaign will be restricted to Maharashtra. Anna will be on a five-week campaign to bring in a stronger Lokayukta Bill in the state. Last week Anna visited Mumbai to build political consensus on the issue. Anna met the state Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan demanding that the CM and MLAs be brought under the ambit...
06:52 AM, May 01, 2012
Mumbai: Eminent nuclear scientist Dr Anil Kakodkar will be the recipient of the prestigious 'Maharashtra Bhushan' award for 2011-12. The announcement was made by Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan in Mumbai on Thursday. The award, instituted in 1997 by the Maharashtra government to recognise the highly distinguished work and achievements of eminent persons from the state, representing different walks of life, carries a cash prize of Rs 5 lakh and a...
03:08 PM, Apr 26, 2012
Mumbai: Maharashtra Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan on Thursday said his government was in the process of conducting comparative studies of Lokayukta Acts of various states and would take a decision on enacting the same only if its provisions are not included in the Centre's Lokpal Bill. Addressing a press conference after an hour-long meeting with anti-graft crusader Anna Hazare, the chief minister said the Lokpal Bill was likely to be...
02:03 PM, Apr 26, 2012
New Delhi: Maharashtra Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan on Saturday met Congress president Sonia Gandhi apparently to explain the slow decision-making process marring investigations into the Adarsh Housing Society scam. The Maharashtra government has been facing severe criticism over its apparently "lethargic attitude" and slow decision-making process impairing the investigations. The judicial commission probing the Adarsh Housing Society scam on Tuesday tabled its report in the Maharashtra Assembly and, in a...
11:19 AM, Apr 21, 2012
Mumbai: Maharashtra Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan on Monday said emergence of Congress as the leading party in the five municipal corporations was a stamp of approval from the people about his government's developmental policies. Chavan, who is in Delhi, said in a statement that Congress had emerged as the largest party with 411 seats out of the total 1,615 in the 15 municipal corporations in the state. NCP is second...
01:42 AM, Apr 17, 2012
Mumbai: Anti-corruption crusader Anna Hazare on Friday asked Maharashtra government to bring in a strong and effective Lokayukta Bill in the state legislature, failing which he will undertake an agitation. In a letter to the Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan, the 75-year-old activist, whose historic 12-day fast in support of a strong Lokpal bill hogged global limelight last year, said Lokayukta should get more powers under the state law. "When you...
03:27 AM, Apr 14, 2012
Mumbai: Even before the onset of summer, farmers across nearly nine districts in Maharashtra are battling drought like conditions, many forced to go without food and water and, the worst part, this time around, the fear of a lower than normal rainfall looms large as well. Sangli is one of the nine districts in the state that are facing drought like conditions. Dhule, Nasik, Usmanabad, Latur, Pune, Satara, Solapur and...
06:14 AM, Apr 10, 2012
Satara (Maharashtra): Nationalist Congress Party chief and Union Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar has taken a dig at Maharashtra Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan for his poor handling of drought relief works in the state. Pawar said that eating lunch with farmers during a drought crisis review meeting would not help in tackling the problem. "The problems (like drought) won't be resolved by sitting under a tree and eating 'thecha' (a green...
01:14 PM, Apr 05, 2012
New Delhi: The Maharashtra government has recommended cricketer Sachin Tendulkar's name for the country's highest civilian honour, the Bharat Ratna. Maharashtra Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan made the announcement in the Assembly on Wednesday. "We felicitated both players from the state after the World Cup. From that time plans were on to recommend the name of the son of the soil, the son of Maharashtra for the Bharat Ratna for his...
08:30 AM, Apr 05, 2012
