Maha CM urges Centre to consider Covid-19 as natural calamity

New Delhi: Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray on Thursday (April 15) wrote a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi seeking financial relief as the second wave of COVID-19 pandemic continues to wreak havoc in the state.

He requested that the pandemic be declared as a natural calamity so that the state could utilize the State Disaster Response Fund (SDRF) to provide financial assistance to the affected people.

“COVID-19 pandemic may be notified as a natural calamity for State Disaster Response Fund,” Thackeray wrote in the letter.