A tug-of-war between the Guardian Minister of Chandrapur district, Shobhatai Phadnavis, and the forest officials at Chandrapur has given this district a rare distinction : it is probably the only on in the State which is not getting funds from the District Planning and Development Council (DPDC) for forest development for the last three years. The district gets funds from the district administration for Preliminary Plantation Operation (PPO) is forests. The DPDC, whose chariman is the Guardian Minister, ususally passes these grants. But, for the last few years it is learnt, whenever the issue of allocating funds for PPOs came up before the DPDC, Phadnavis rejected proposals saying the Forest Department was holding up several projects on the pretext of the Forest Conservation Act (FCA), 1980.