The classic political promise of generating employment has turned ugly for the tribals in Gadchiroli as a bamboo tile manufacturing unit set up a former MP is stuck in political brickbats for years. The unit that would have given employment to jobless locals and earned the cooperative society running it over R100 crore annually once production picked pace is stuck thanks to the Congress and BJP leaders fighting over it. While Congress' Dr Namdeo Usendi took the initiative of setting up the unit, sitting BJP MP Ashok Nete initiated an inquiry into its setting up, alleging flouting of norms.

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