Mumbai, With several parts of Maharashtra facing drought conditions, state Water Supply and Sanitation Minister Gulabrao Patil has claimed his department has not received funds from the Centre since September 2024.
At present, 700 tankers are supplying water in four districts of the state Ahilyanagar, Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar, Jalna and Nashik, he said. Last month, the Maharashtra government declared drought in 265 of its 358 talukas, or 74 per cent of the state, amid rainfall deficit and announced relief measures, including crop loan restructuring, land revenue concessions, and power bill subsidies. The situation would have been different had the money been provided, the Shiv Sena leader said on Tuesday.
The state government gave funds from its own kitty…The picture would have been different had we got the money. “We haven’t got the money since September 2024 as expected.
Contractors, villagers, farmers and MLAs blame us ,” said Patil, who represents the Jalgaon Rural assembly constituency in North Maharashtra. The Sena leader said he hoped that Union Jal Shakti Minister C R Paatil, who hails from Maharashtra, will look into the issue.
