Thursday, March 11, 2010

Chief minister Ashok Chavan puts an end to Vasai-Virar furore

Mumbai: The furious row over the demand to exclude 53 villages near Vasai from the proposed Vasai-Virar Municipal Corporation may soon end. The state government on Wednesday accepted the exclusion of 30 of the 53 villages and assured that a final decision on the remaining 23 villages would be taken before the budget session on March 18.The state government has also accepted that the election for the municipal corporation would not be held till a final solution was drawn on the issue.

Chief minister Ashok Chavan held a meeting with Vasai MLA Vivek Pandit, who is in the forefront of the agitation to exclude the villages, at his residence Varsha on Wednesday night.

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