An official said here that a presentation on the report submitted by a committee headed by the economist Vijay Kelkar was today made before the Chief Minister and the cabinet.
The previous Congress-NCP government, dominated by leaders from Western Maharashtra, had kept the report on the back-burner after the committee submitted it to the Governor in October last year.
The government had promised to table it in the 2013 winter session of Assembly, but nothing happened.
The committee studied the regional imbalance with regard to irrigation, agriculture, education, business, industries, self-employment and private investment.
During the 2013 winter session, the then Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan had claimed that the report was being studied and once the government allocated funds as per the committee's recommendations, nobody would seek a separate state of Vidarbha.
Fadnavis, known to be a votary of separate Vidarbha, had alleged back then that Congress and NCP did not want to give Vidarbha and Marathwada their due.