The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led Maharashtra government has appealed to all its employees, ministers, ministers of state, bureaucrats, members of the legislature as well as the police force to donate a day’s salary in July for the welfare of the wives and children of farmers who have committed suicide.
Chief minister Devendra Fadnavis will also set aside a day’s salary for the cause.
The state general administration department issued a notification on Wednesday saying the donation would be completely voluntary, and will be aggregated in the chief minister’s relief fund.
“The state government has been thinking of ways to raise funds to brace the drought-like situation in the state and to extend monetary help for the wives of farmers who have committed suicide and the education of their children,” the state government said in the notification.
“The heads of all government departments, government and semi-government institutions, zilla parishads, panchayat samitis, municipalities and municipal corporations, public undertakings and state corporations should bring this to the notice of their employees and seek their permission to donate a day’s salary,” it added.
