{
  "id": 12675085,
  "title": "Maharashtra Contractors Seek Urgent Meeting With CM Devendra Fadnavis Over ₹86,000 Crore Pending Govt Bills, Warn Of Financial Crisis",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/07/maharashtra-contractors-seek-urgent-meeting-with-cm-devendra-fadnavis",
  "topic": "business",
  "section": "Business",
  "published": "2026-10-07T17:36:14.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Free Press Journal",
    "slug": "free-press-journal",
    "url": "https://www.freepressjournal.in/mumbai/maharashtra-contractors-seek-urgent-meeting-with-cm-devendra-fadnavis-over-86000-crore-pending-govt-bills-warn-of-financial-crisis"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "The Maharashtra State Contractors Association has called for an urgent meeting with Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis to address the issue of ₹86,000 crore in pending government bills, which has left contractors across the state in financial distress. The association claims that despite multiple attempts to secure a meeting with the Chief Minister and his office, their requests have gone unanswered. Contractors have been working on infrastructure and development projects for various government departments, including Public Works, Rural Development, Tribal Development, and Jal Jeevan Mission, but have not received their payments. The association has also demanded that small works not be lumped into large tenders, and that the GST payment system be reviewed to ease the financial burden on contractors.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}