Maharashtra s Economy-Myth and Reality

A careful scrutiny of Maharashtra state's Economic Survey, 1993-94 and the Annual Budget for the current year reveals a stagnant agricultural economy, increasing scarcity of water in spite of staggering amounts being spent by the state for irrigation and for providing drinking water, a pattern of highly capital-intensive polluting industrial sector which is not providing the jobs it ought to have and a disregard among the state's planners for the welfare of the people of the state.