INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
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Updated: Feb 07, 2020 04:40 IST
Jaipur (Rajasthan) [India], Feb 7 (ANI): Rajasthan revenue minister Harish Chaudhary has written to Prime Minister Narendra
Modi seeking to declare locust attack in the state as a national calamity.He also requested the Prime Minister for a change of rules under
the State Disaster Response Fund to provide help to affected farmers and for an effective plan to find a permanent solution to the
menace.Earlier on February 4, Chaudhary had written to PM Modi seeking a declaration of locusts attack in the state as a national
calamity.Concerned over the spate of locust attacks on crops in areas of south Punjab, bordering Rajasthan, Chief Minister Captain Amarinder
Singh on January 28 urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to direct External Affairs ministry and the Indian High Commission in Islamabad to
immediately take up the issue with Pakistan, from where the pests were emanating.In a letter to Prime Minister, Captain Amarinder had said
there has been a sustained locust attack on crops in Rajasthan recently and a significant number of these pests have also entered into
