Maharashtra to announce Covid-19 relief package soon: Deputy CM Ajit Pawar

The Deputy CM said that there is a slight increase in the number of Covid-19 cases in some areas of rural Maharashtra

Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar on Friday said that the Maharashtra government will announce a package soon to deal with the situation arising out due to coronavirus (Covid-19) outbreak.

"We will get to know about further plans for a lockdown of the Centre through the Prime Minister. I feel that the Prime Minister now will leave it on states because everything is shut for the last two-and-a-half-months. Schools, colleges, business and jobs are shut and hence, there is an economic crisis today," Pawar said.

"We will have to find a way out from the crisis and hence,