UNEVEN REGIONAL DEVELOPMENF 95 1(11 Development Corporator! of Konkan Ltd appears to have been set up at the suggestion of the Indian Merchants Chamber of Commerce, in 1971. 183 RJ Rajadhyaksha, "Development of Konkan, Many Sided Effects", Lokrajya, p 22. ud Ibid,? 22. lu Arunachalam, Geographical Magazine, op cit, p 17. -^ 185 Apart from Chiplun, Kudal in the south has been selected as the exclusive locale to help the education of young "local entrepreneurs" to set up small and medium industries with the help of SICOM, M'»EB, Rajadhyaksha, op cit,p 20. But a government report indicates that four large engineering factories have sprung up in Kudal. They are Wymen Garden, S?thi Nippon, Powder Metal and Arvind Metal. J K Files has been established in MIDG area at Ratnagiri, Socio-Economic Review, 1976-77, p 7. ls8 Except for two pockets, Ciplun and Kudal. n7 The density of Ratnagiri is only 153 per sq km as against the state average of 164. Soda-Economic Review, 1976-77, p 4. i»8 When Maharashtra itself is considered one of the few favoured states and it receives 70 percent or more of the institutional finance from tlie Centre, Raj Krishna, "The Centre and the Periphery", Economic Times, 12 May 1980. 189 Soda-Economic Review 1976-77', p 5. 140 Census oj India, Maharashtra 1971, p 16. 141 Our survey showed that in 1978 only eight households in Kondivile village availed of this facility. I R 8 andjaya fetch a high price of Rs 120 per quintal and require along period of 130-135 days for maturation, "Case Study of Kondivile", op dt^ P 25. 142 The migrant labour docs not get lost in the anonimity of the metropolitan life* One report states that village groups, rnitra mandals, meet regularly to discuss the problems of their village back home, J Pinto, op cit, p 33. l4i M Savur, "A Case Study of Kondivile", op cit, p 24. The money is not enough to be productively utilized in agriculture. Yet, Ratnagiri is referred to as ^money-order economy.'* 144 One may at this point ask: Has the Sarvodaya, a reformist party which operated in this area, contributed to the political passivity of the people in their homeland? Again, there is also the fact that Balasaheb Savant was put in charge Wthe Congress and its newly created labour wing, the Indian National Trade Union Congress (INTUG). INTUG has a fairly good control over Bombay's textile labour and a stronger reputation for breaking strikes. Last [but not the least, an important fact that cannot be forgotten is that the Ratnagiri people, mainly Muslims, Marathas and Mahars, right from the early British period had joined the police and the army in large numbers.