rs 3 crore for the centre finance secretary has been asked to release the remaining rs 27 crore soon about 25 acre nonforest area on the zoo premises will be handed over to forest development corporation of maharashtra fdcm private sector will be roped in for the project as it requires rs 183 crore viability gap funding at present the floor to space index fsi in this area is 04 it is not possible to develop resorts and entertainment parks with such low fsi it has to be minimum 1 forest department has been asked to make a proposal in this regard there are no places of interest in the city a nagpur circuit will have to be developed so that tourists dont directly go to kanha or tadoba national parkslbt will be abolished bjp government is committed to abolition of local body tax lbt and octroi as they are regressive taxes it will not wait for introduction of goods and services tax gst nor will it leave the decision to local bodies as most of them will go for octroi traders are ready to pay extra taxes but dont want inspector raj one of the proposals is to levy an additional tax on value added tax vat the traders were ready for it but the government did not do anything about it we will discuss alternate taxes with traders and come up with a solutionpower reforms are needed it is true that due to high power rates our industry is finding it difficult to compete globally the rates of power in many states are far lower than maharashtra however government cant provide 20 subsidy to industries year after year the rates have to come down by reducing expenses on power plants and distribution company major reforms are needed coal shortage will have to be reduced to improve the plant load factor plf which has reached an abysmal 50 it is true that farmers are not getting adequate power they get power at night which makes it difficult to irrigate their crops they dont need ten hours power but only eight hours during the day we are chalking out plans to provide them the same during the presentation given by the energy department we observed that thousands of agricultural pump connections have not been released eastern vidarbha has groundwater but the farmer does not electricity to extract it that is why he is dependent on a single crop if that crop is damaged he is pushed into penury for multicropping adequate and reliable power supply along with irrigation facilities are requireddalit killings probe on fast track i have taken a serious view of the javkheda incident in ahmednagar district where three members of a dalit family were killed brutally the dgp was asked to brief on the latest status of probe before the state cabinet the police are working on two theories to zero in on the perpetrators of the crime on the whole the home ministry will now have