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ration card-holders in 14 districts of Maharashtra's Vidarbha and Marathwada regions will get benefit of the Food Security Act and will be given five kilograms of wheat and rice in view of the lockdown to combat the novel coronavirus outbreak, state Food and Civil Supplies Minister Chhagan Bhujbal said on Friday.
The districts are Aurangabad, Jalana, Nanded, Beed, Parbhani, Osmanabad, Latur, Hingoli, Amravati, Washim, Akola, Buldhana, Yavatmal and Wardha, he said.
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