Maharashtra Funds: Ladki Bahini Yojana To Airport Coverage, Ajit Pawar Outlines Key Takeaways | India Information
MUMBAI: Maharashtra Finance Minister and Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar introduced the state finances for the monetary 12 months 2025-26. Presenting the finances, Pawar acknowledged {that a} whole outlay of Rs 36,000 crore has been proposed for the Mukhya Mantri Majhi Ladki Bahini Yojana scheme and additional acknowledged that monetary advantages have been being supplied to 2 crore and 53 lakh beneficiary girls below the scheme. “The grant acquired from this scheme has been utilized by some girls’s teams as seed capital for financial actions and a particular scheme is into account to additional encourage such teams,” he stated.
Pawar additional acknowledged that the Jawaharlal Nehru Port Authority and Maharashtra Maritime Board have been collectively growing Vadhavan Port in Palghar district, the whole value of which was Rs 76,220 crore with 26 per cent authorities participation. “Vadhavan Port will create an annual cargo dealing with capability of about 300 million metric tons. This will likely be 3 times the present capability of Jawaharlal Nehru Port. Cargo transport is anticipated to begin from the brand new port by 2030. As this port will likely be included within the high 10 ports on the earth when it comes to container dealing with, the state of Maharashtra will emerge as a superpower in maritime communication sooner or later,” he stated.
Additional, the Deputy CM acknowledged {that a} third airport had been proposed for Mumbai close to the Wadhwa port. The Mumba-Ahmedabad bullet prepare station linked to the Samruddhi freeway can be situated close to this port. Giving details about the upcoming airport coverage in Maharashtra, Ajit Pawar stated that the event work of Shirdi Airport price Rs 1,367 crore has been authorised and the work is underway.
Shirdi Airport has been granted main airport standing in 2021. Night time touchdown amenities may even be began quickly. Additionally, the work of Ratnagiri Airport price Rs 147 crore is in progress. Together with this, the work of Belora Airport in Amravati has been accomplished and passenger providers are deliberate to begin from March 31, 2025. Survey and exploration work of the brand new airport in Gadchiroli is underway.
Pawar stated that obligatory funds will likely be made out there for the growth of Akola Airport. Talking on work on monuments, Pawar stated that work on the grand memorial of the Chhatrapati Sambhaji Maharaj and Mauje Vadhu Budruk was in progress. He additional acknowledged that the federal government had determined to construct a grand memorial on the place the place Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj was below home arrest and additional acknowledged that land can be made out there for this with the cooperation of the Uttar Pradesh authorities.
Giving info of the opposite monuments, he stated {that a} grand memorial can be in-built Mumbai on the event of the start centenary of the late Prime Minister of India, Bharat Ratna Atal Bihari Vajpayee. The work of the primary part of the Late Balasaheb Thackeray Nationwide Memorial has been accomplished and a fund of Rs 220 crore has been supplied by the state authorities for the second part.
A memorial and ladies’s coaching centre befitting the work of the pioneer trainer Gyanjyoti Savitribai Phule will likely be in-built Naigaon, Taluka Khandala, District Satara, the birthplace of her, as per the finances. Work on the worldwide commonplace memorial of Bharat Ratna Babasaheb Ambedkar on the positioning of Indu Mill in Chaityabhoomi Dadar in Mumbai was additionally underway and ample funds are being supplied for it.
“We’ve got additionally determined to construct a befitting memorial in Panipat, Haryana as a logo of the bravery of lakhs of Marathas who sacrificed for Swarajya. A spot will likely be made out there for this memorial with the assistance of the Haryana authorities,” Pawar additional acknowledged. In a particular point out of the Gadchiroli district, Pawar acknowledged that the district, which was as soon as a Naxal-affected district, was now rising because the ‘metal hub’.
Pawar additional acknowledged {that a} Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) had been signed for an funding of Rs 21,830 crore for the Gadchiroli district on the World Financial Discussion board which was held in Davos. The MoU is anticipated to generate 7,500 jobs, he stated. “A community of mining highways is being developed for communication in Gadchiroli district and for this, works price about Rs 500 crore will likely be undertaken within the first part,” the Deputy CM additional acknowledged.
Offering details about the Samruddhi Freeway, Hindu Hriday Samrat Balasaheb Thackeray stated that 99 per cent of the mission had been accomplished, on which a complete of Rs 64,755 had been spent.
As per the finances, an agro-logistics hub will likely be developed alongside this freeway and main amenities of chilly storage, grading, packing and export dealing with facilities will likely be supplied through which will primarily profit farmers in Vidarbha and Marathwada. Whereas giving details about the ‘Mukhyamantri Gram Sadak Yojana’, Ajit Pawar stated that the work of Mukhyamantri Gram Sadak Yojana Section-1 had been accomplished and below Section-2, the work of upgrading 9 thousand 610 kilometers of roads is deliberate to be accomplished by the tip of March, 2026.
Underneath Mukhyamantri Gram Sadak Yojana Section-2, a further 7 thousand kilometers of roads will likely be concretized. Underneath Mukhyamantri Gram Sadak Yojana Section-3, 3 thousand 582 villages with a inhabitants of greater than 1 thousand will likely be linked to main district roads, state highways or nationwide highways by 14 thousand kilometers of cement concrete roads. The full value of this mission is Rs 30,100 crore. Pawar stated that work price Rs 8 thousand crore will likely be undertaken within the first part.
Pawar stated that an externally funded mission price Rs 8,400 crore will likely be applied within the coastal districts of Maharashtra to guard them from pure disasters brought on by local weather change and rising sea ranges. Underneath the Rs 450 crore mission “Maharashtra Sustainable Eco-Pleasant Coastal Safety and Administration”, works price Rs 158 crore have been authorised in Devbagh in Sindhudurg district.
Pawar additional acknowledged that the state’s new housing coverage will likely be introduced quickly to realize the purpose of ‘Housing for All’ within the subsequent 5 years. On this event, Ajit Pawar stated, “Within the state, the Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana, PM Janman are centrally sponsored, whereas Ramai Awas, Shabari Awas, Adim Awas, Pardhi Awas, Atal Bhaka Kamgar Vasahat, Yashwantrao Chavan Mukta Vasahat, Punyashlok Ahilyadevi Holkar Awas, Modi Awas and Dharmaveer Anand Dighe Gharkul schemes are being applied. A complete of 44 lakh 7 thousand homes have been authorised below them thus far.”
He additionally stated that below the Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana Rural Section-2, out of the goal of 20 lakh homes for the 12 months 2024-25, about 18 lakh 38 thousand homes have been authorised and Rs 2 thousand 200 crores have been distributed to 14 lakh 71 thousand beneficiaries for the primary instalment. Maharashtra is within the first place within the nation in implementing this scheme.
“In response to the demand of the individuals’s representatives and beneficiaries, the state authorities will enhance the subsidy of this scheme by Rs 50 thousand. Solar energy units will likely be put in on the roofs of all these homes,” Pawar stated. Presenting the coverage for cutting-edge know-how within the agricultural sector, Pawar stated, a coverage was being formulated for the usage of synthetic intelligence (AI) and cutting-edge know-how within the agricultural sector.
‘Synthetic intelligence’ know-how will likely be used to supply farmers with crop planning recommendation, cut back manufacturing prices, enhance productiveness, produce high quality agricultural merchandise and supply a good and sustainable marketplace for agricultural merchandise. Within the first part, one lakh acres of land of fifty thousand farmers will profit from it.
Ajit Pawar knowledgeable that 1 lakh 48 thousand 888 works price Rs 4 thousand 227 crore have been undertaken in 5 thousand 818 villages below Jalyukt Shivar Abhiyan 2.0. Pawar additionally stated that every one the works below the marketing campaign will likely be accomplished by March 2026. Wainganga-Nalganga River Interconnection Mission has been authorised in precept. The estimated value of this mission is Rs 88,574 crore and the profit space of the mission is 3,71,277 hectares. This mission will profit six districts of Nagpur, Wardha, Amravati, Yavatmal, Akola and Buldhana. Detailed survey and exploration work of the mission is underway, as per the finances.
The Damanganga-Ekdare-Godavari River Interconnection Mission will make 3.55 TMC of water out there, which is able to restore 9,766 hectares of the profit space of the Jayakwadi Dam. This may even profit 2,987 hectares of Nashik district. The estimated value of this mission is Rs 2,300 crore, Pawar stated. Ajit Pawar stated within the finances speech, “For the general improvement of the Scheduled Caste communities, schemes similar to Rajarshi Shahu Maharaj Scholarship Scheme, Pupil Hostels, Bharat Ratna Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar Swadhar Scheme, Sahitya Ratna Lokshahir Annabhau Sathe City Settlement Enchancment Scheme and so forth. are being applied.
Many schemes have been additionally being applied by Mahatma Phule Backward Courses Growth Company, Sahitya Ratna Lokshahir Annabhau Sathe Growth Company, Sant Rohidas Leather-based Industries and Leather-based Staff Growth Company. The supply for the Scheduled Caste Deployment Scheme has been elevated by 42 % this 12 months in comparison with final 12 months, Pawar stated.
