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The Maharashtra authorities is disbursing funds for flood affected farmers and wants to guarantee that alleviation wealth reaches each of them earlier Diwali, Deputy Chief Minister Eknath Shinde said connected Saturday (September 27, 2025).
Many parts of the state, particularly Marathwada, person seen precise dense rains since September 20, starring to flooding, resulting successful terrible harvest harm and distress to farmers.
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Speaking to reporters here, Mr. Shinde said, “We person visited fields and inspected the situation. Our authorities stands firmly with the farmers. We person met Union Home Minister Amit Shah and submitted a missive to him seeking help. Whenever a situation arises, the Centre has ever extended support,” helium said.
“Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis has besides met Prime Minister Narendra Modi and apprised him of the concern successful Maharashtra owed to dense rains,” Mr. Shinde added.
The CM and Mr. Shinde had met Mr. Shah erstwhile the Union Minister was connected a one-day sojourn to Mumbai connected Thursday (September 25, 2025). On Friday (September 26, 2025), Mr. Fadnavis had met the PM successful New Delhi and sought assistance done the National Disaster Relief Fund.
“Funds are being fixed for rebuilding houses, for livestock, for damaged crops and besides for nonaccomplishment of lives. It is the government’s basal that farmers should person wealth successful their hands earlier Diwali,” Mr. Shinde added.
On the Opposition claiming the assistance from the State authorities was excessively little, Mr. Shinde said specified critics indispensable “go to the fields to spot the tears and conditions of the people” alternatively than indulge successful politics.
While Maharashtra Congress main Harshwardhan Sapkal has called the alleviation magnitude declared truthful acold arsenic “pittance”, Shiv Sena (UBT) caput Uddhav Thackeray has said the authorities authorities indispensable denote ₹50,000 per hectare of alleviation to the affected farmers.
