ASSERTINGthat Maharashtra is going to be first State in the country to achieve $1 trillion econo my by 2030, Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis further quipped “Maharashtra is marching ahead, it’s not going to stop”, while replying to Opposition last week’s motion in Assembly. On concluding day of Winter Session, the Chief Minister effectively projected the achievement ” admit that the monetary position is not that rosy but also not weak as is being claimed. At the same time, Fadnavis declared that within next two years, State will finally get rid of concept of backlog as he reeled off figures of ongoing irrigation project. The only three districts having backlog are Akola where about 14,530 lakh Ha irrigation capacity is being created against need for 13.83 lakh Ha.

 

At Buldhana, the Jigaon project is going to be game changer for which Rs 2,399 crore has been sanctioned with an aim to created 1.38 lakh Ha irrigation potential against backlog of 29,000 Ha. The last district with backlog, Hingoli, has been sanctioned 485 project for tapping 22.31 lakh Ha potential. Coming to Gosikhurd, of the 2.59 lakh Ha potential, 2.09 lakh Ha is already achieved and rest is going to be complete by June 2027. The State has released Rs 1,555 crore for the same. About Rs 5,950 crore is sanctioned for deepening Irrigation potential. Armed with data and backed by facts, Fadnavis cut short the tall claims of Opposition who painted the town red on Saturday, projecting as if darkness is pre vailing everywhere.

 

Countering it on Sunday, Chief Minister said on the agriculture front alone, the farmers are going to get day time power through tapping of solar energy for which about 16,000 MW contracts were issued. The power is going to come on stream by mid 2026 and to date 3,000 MW projects are completed. Maharashtra is aiming for generation of 26,682 MW through renewable energy sources. The advantage of solar power is that State is going to save Rs 10,000 crore annually due to low er rate discovered through competitive bidding. At the same time, Rs 5,500 crore outflow on agri culture power subsidy is also going to be saved.

 

Informing about the positive outcome of this, Fadnavis said 16,000 MW solar power generation is going to massively reduce carbon foot print and if same was done through thermal power, then about 2.75 lakh saplings would have needed to be planted. In act, State is anticipating 36,000 MW generation of green power by next decade of which 1500 MW will be round the clock generation. In fact, Maharashtra is planning to have 82,000 MW contracting of power by year 2030 when demand is going to rise manifold and of it, 36,000 MW is going to be green power. 22.31 lakh Ha potential.

 

Coming to Gosikhurd, of the 2.59 lakh Ha potential, 2.09 lakh Ha is already achieved and rest is going to be complete by June 2027. The State has released Rs 1,555 crore for the same. About Rs 5,950 crore is sanctioned for deepening Irrigation potential. Armed with data and backed by facts, Fadnavis cut short the tall claims of Opposition who painted the town red on Saturday, projecting as if darkness is pre vailing everywhere. Countering it on Sunday, Chief Minister said on the agriculture front alone, the farmers are going to get day time power through tapping of solar energy for which about 16,000 MW contracts were issued.

 

The power is going to come on stream by mid 2026 and to date 3,000 MW projects are completed. Maharashtra is aiming for generation of 26,682 MW through renewable energy sources. The advantage of solar power is that State is going to save Rs 10,000 crore annually due to lower rate discovered through competitive bidding. At the same time, Rs 5,500 crore outflow on agriculture power subsidy is also going to be saved. Informing about the positive outcome of Similarly, the long-pending issue of pending agriculture pumps is history and Fadnavis happily informed House about Guinness Book of Records by MSEDCL for affixing 45,110 pumps.

 

“In fact, Maharashtra is going to be leader in pumped storage generation and same would help in stabilising grid. While we have signed accord for 76,000 MW of power and aim to scale them to 1 lakh MW. Our requirement is only 8,000 MW and rest of the power is going to be exported to national grid helping it stabilise the frequency. Of this 25 per cent will be through on/off option which is best suit ed for grid stability requirement,” Fadnavis said.