Nearly drought, so CM to meet PM, seek aid
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29/07/2008
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Indian Express (Mumbai)
Pune, July 28 Chief Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh will soon be meeting Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to seek central aid to counter the drought-like situation prevailing in the state, despite the intermittent rains in the last few days. As a first step towards this, divisional commissioners of the six revenue divisions in Maharashtra have been asked to draft assessment and suggestion reports to be forwarded to the chief minister's office by next Monday.
Speaking to reporters here on Monday, Minister for Marketing and Employment Guarantee Scheme Harshvardhan Patil and Agriculture Minister Balasaheb Thorat after conducting the first round of review meeting for the Pune division, said the review meetings will help bring relief under the state EGS and the Maharashtra Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MREGS) as also go towards creating fodder banks for the cattle.
"With certain areas receiving no rainfall even after two months, the situation continued to be grim,' said the ministers, citing the case of Baramati, the Union Agriculture Minister's hometown, as having received