30 years on, dam project cost up from Rs 372cr to Rs 7,777cr

It's a flood of money, not water, that's flowing into Maharashtra's dam projects. TOI's continuing investigation into the criminal escalation of costs and infinite delays in water projects has thrown up another shocker: the Gosikhurd irrigation project in Bhandara district near Nagpur, which was okayed at a cost of Rs 372 crore in 1982, is nowhere near completion 30 years on even as the cost has risen to Rs 7,777 crore. Word is the state plans to raise it to Rs 13,000 crore soon.

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