NEW DELHI : Cash-strapped state governments on Monday demanded that Prime Minister Narendra Modi personally intervene to announce a special financial package for them.
States are demanding a special package as their tax collections, especially from liquor and fuel sales, are dwindling because of the lockdown, even as they have to spend more to combat the coronavirus outbreak and its economic fallout.
In the meeting with Modi on Monday, chief ministers also raised concerns over the fate of migrant workers, inter-state transportation of goods and the need for a graded withdrawal of the lockdown.
This was the fifth such meeting in the past 51 days to discuss the impact of the pandemic. Among states that raised their concerns were
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