Even as the Centre on Tuesday sanctioned over Rs 700 crore as compensation against the Rs3,700 crore sought by the state towards the rainfall-related losses inMaharashtralast year, the preliminary estimate of this years losses has been pegged at Rs4,000 crore till now, with damages to government infrastructure making up for a large chunk.

As thetollrose to 209, the state cabinet is likely to announce a special compensation package for Konkan and Western Maharashtra region that were worst hit. The compensation will be on the lines of that announced during the Nisarg and Tauktae .

The state governments compensation proposal to the Centre for rain-related losses last year was over Rs 3,721 crore. The State Government had sanctioned Rs 4,375 crore from its coffers for the affected districts. The central

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