The decision was taken last night, a spokesman said here today.
The districts declared are -- Banda, Mahoba, Jhansi, Chitrakoot, Hamirpur, Jalaun, Lalitpur, all falling in Bundelkhand region, and Kanpur for the rabi crop session, he said.
Meanwhile BJP and Congress today lashed out at the Uttar Pradesh government for having a non-serious attitude towards the water scarce Bundelkhand region.
"The state government has been misleading the people by launching a canard that the Centre is not extending relief package to Bundelkhand but it has failed to promptly declare the districts falling in this region as drought-hit which was done only last night", BJP spokesman Harishchand Srivastava said.
The delay goes on to prove that the state government is not serious and had only been misleading the people by launching a false propaganda against the Centre, Srivastava said.
Chairman of Congress' communications department Satyadev Tripathi alleged that Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav has fallen prey to statistics presented by the officials and has gone by what they told him over the decision to declaring eight districts as drought-hit.
"I demand that the government declare the whole state as drought-hit so that steps can be taken up for providing relief to all," he said.
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