It is not enough that pretty much every thing is missing in Maharashtra. If you leave aside the sheer resilience of people going about their daily lives unperturbed with basic support, then there is pretty much nothing. I am going to get settled in Pune soon and believe me, whoever painted a very rosy picture of the place needs a tight kick from you. Very basic infrastructure is missing. There are no roads in very big areas of the city. Airport does not let flights take off or land after 7 and it is hell to find a cab. That does not mean that you will pay top money to rent any apartment.
So you would think that someone would start putting these things together. Pune was the favorite manufacturing destination for a very long time but then Sena did to industry in Pune what Communists did to everything in Bengal....go and ask for money from the industrialists or make life hell for them. No wonder, a lot of manufacturing has migrated to Chennai and Hyderabad. There still is a lot of industry left and especially because hiring people from so many colleges in Pune is easy. But the latest nonsense is classical. This whole hoopla about kicking out North Indians who are taking up jobs from Marathi people could be the final nail in a city which looks like a very very big slum. If it needed one final push, this might be it.
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