The State government has set up a one-member panel to study the recommendations of the Gaikwad Committee, which probed the alleged Rs. 6,000 crore scam in the Tribal Welfare Department during the previous Congress-NCP regime. The panel was set up under retired IAS officer Prabhakar Karandikar.

The Gaikwad Committee was instituted to inquire into the alleged Rs. 6,000 crore scam between 2004 and 2009 during the tenure of NCP leader and Tribal Welfare Minister Vijaykumar Gavit, who is now a BJP MLA. A prominent BJP tribal leader, Mr. Gavit is MLA from Nandurbar and his daughter is a BJP Rajya Sabha MP.

The five-member committee, headed by former judge Justice M.G. Gaikwad, was appointed by the government on April 15, 2014 on an order of the Bombay High Court in March 2014. A PIL was filed in the HC in 2014, alleging the Tribal Welfare Department made purchases without calling for tenders.