Except for a few, several projects approved by the District Planning Development Committee (DPDC) in 2024-25 for the Dharashiv district (formerly Osmanabad) have hit a roadblock following an order from the state planning department, which applied brakes on the projects for the Marathwada region, as these were yet to get state government approval or commencement orders.

The deputy secretary of the state planning department has written to the Dharashiv district collector asking him to “immediately put on hold all works approved by the DPDC”, except for those in which administrative approval and commencement orders have been issued.