Vidarbha is a backward region of the so called industrial state of Maharashtra. The key reason for Vidarbha's backwardness in the lack of irrigation facilities. Successive governments have built irrigation facilities in Western Maharashtra but not in Vidarbha. Do you know why? Castiesm! The Vidarbha region is populated by mostly backward class people, telis, kunbis and SC/STs. The Maratha leaders of Maharashtra don't care about this region since many Marathas don't live here. So all the money is spent in Western Maharashtra. I have seen people from Vidarbha mistakingly complain that their region is discriminated against by the mostly Maratha politicians. But this is not region or language discrimination, this is caste based discrimination. People from Western Maharashta don't want to help the SC/ST, kunbi and teli majority of Vidarbha. They want these people to stay poor, uneducated and low in population so that the Marathas can rule, hence the neglect of Vidarbha.
