Maharashtra reconstitutes high-powered committee on border row with Karnataka
Mumbai: The state govt on Thursday reconstituted the high-powered committee to resolve the Maharashtra-Karnataka border dispute. Chief minister
Devendra Fadnavis
is the chairperson of the new committee.
The committee includes deputy CMs Ajit Pawar and Eknath Shinde. NCP (SP) president Sharad Pawar, BJP MP Narayan Rane, former CM Prithviraj Chavan, ministers Chandrakant Patil, Shambhuraje Desai, Prakash Abitkar, legislators Rohit R Patil, Jayant Patil, Ambadas Danve, and Rajesh Kshirsagar, who heads the state planning commission, among others, are part of the committee.
The first high-powered committee was set up on May 26, 2014.
It was reconstituted on May 2, 2020, under the leadership of then CM Uddhav Thackeray and again reconstituted on June 30, 2022. It was once more reconstituted in November 2022 after Shinde took over as CM.
The border dispute is as old as the reorganisation of states. It pertains to an area of 7,000 km along the Maharashtra-Karnataka border, with 814 villages. The dispute, ongoing since 1956, revolves around 865 villages in three districts of Karnataka near the border, which have a substantial Marathi-speaking population.
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Maharashtra has claimed the 865 villages along the border of the two states, asserting that they have a majority of Marathi-speaking residents. Karnataka has maintained that the 865 villages are part of its territory and has claimed instead that it should get control over 200 villages in Maharashtra because they have a Kannada-speaking majority.
Protests have erupted in both states for decades, and politicians of both states have exchanged barbs. A case is pending before the Supreme Court. Over the decades, there have been multiple commissions and committees to look into the issue, as well as multiple protests in both states. The Maharashtra govt has announced different schemes and concessions for Marathi-speaking people in the disputed districts of Karnataka if they want to pursue education or govt jobs in Maharashtra.
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