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The land of fortune and farmer suicides -Sumit Mishra and Pramit Bhattacharya

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A Mint analysis based on a wide range of district level indicators of assets and amenities shows how Maharashtra's wealth is very unevenly spread

If India is a land of contradictions, Maharashtra is its befitting exemplar. It is at once the country's cradle of wealth and its most poignant symbol of agrarian distress, where many millionaires are born, and many farmers commit suicides each year. Maharashtra is the wealthiest of all Indian states. But its wealth is very unevenly spread, a Mint analysis based on a wide range of district level indicators of assets and amenities show.

As in the case of Uttar Pradesh, most of Maharashtra's well-off districts are clustered in its western-most part, whereas most of the backward districts are located in the two other regions of the state: Marathwada and Vidarbha

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