AP CM to meet Union Ministers for Central aid

Tuesday, November 7, 2006, 21:05 [IST]

Hyderabad, Nov 7 (UNI) Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Y S Rajasekhara Reddy today said he would meet Union Finance Minister P Chidambaram and Agriculture Minister Raghuvansh Prasad Singh, the members of the Disaster Management Committee, to seek more Central assistance for flood-affected areas in the state.

Speaking to newspersons here, Dr Reddy said, during his visit to New Delhi, he would meet the duo and urge them to allocate more funds to rehabilitate the people, who had lost their livelihood during the recent floods in Krishna, Guntur and Prakasham districts.

Preliminary assessment had put the total damage in these districts at Rs 7,000 crore.

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