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TN Govt not cooperating on fertiliser projects: Alagiri

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Press Trust of India Madurai

"We have announced projects. But Tamil Nadu Government has neither given its approval nor cooperating," the senior DMK leader told reporters here.

He also charged the state government with focussing on filing cases on the DMK men. "This is their important work now."

Alagiri, son of DMK President M Karunanidhi, said he had set up 18 free toilets in Madurai, from where he was elected to Lok Sabha, but the Corporation had converted them into "Pay and Use".

To a question, he said the Centre was taking efforts to reduce the price of fertilisers. "We are taking efforts to reduce the price of fertilisers. We are also taking steps to prevent the hike in the price of fertilisers."

 

He said the scheme of directly distributing the fertiliser subsidy to the farmers, as announced by the then Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee, "is still under consideration".

  

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First Published: Oct 25 2012 | 6:55 PM IST

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