Over 3,500 distributors sell about 13 hundred thousand litres of milk and allied products everyday. In Mumbai alone, six hundred thousand liters of cow milk and one hundred thousand litres of Aarey special milk is sold everyday. A distributor selling cow milk, priced at Rs 11 per litre, will get 37 paise commission instead of 30, and get 60 paise instead of 48 for selling Aarey special milk priced at Rs 14 per litre.

Announcing other decisions taken by the cabinet in the weekly press conference here at Mantralaya this afternoon, Chief Minister Manohar Joshi said the Vidarbha Statutory Development Board will give Rs 3 crore to the Amravati Municipal Corporation for its ambitious Rs 123.4 crore underground sewerage project.

The State Governmentwill give Rs 28.71 crore, while the Corporation will have to take a loan of Rs 82.03 crore for the rest of the amount, the Chief Minister said.

Joshi further said that the Cabinet has taken note of a proposal sent by Sharad Joshi, leader of the Shetkari Sanghtana, to develop plots in the proposed industrial estate at Chakan. Sharad Joshi has proposed that the land be developed by Bhama Constructions Private Limited, a company owned and operated by farmers only. A total of 2,950 hectare land will be required for the industrial estate, half of which will be developed by Bhama. The State Government has sanctioned this proposal, the chief minister said. He also informed that the company will be given other concessions like exemption in sales tax and so on.

The chief minister further said that the State Government will give a grant of Rs 35 lakh to producer Nachiket Patwardhan for making a film based on Ahilyabai Holkar, and Rs 50 lakh to Amol Palekar for making a film on Raghunath Karve, noted socialworker.

The Chief Minister also announced new guardian ministers for six districts in Maharashtra. Health minister Daulat Aher has been given Dhule, while newly inducted transport minister Diwakar Rawate will look after Thane district. Vinod Gudadhe-Patil will take care of Amravati, Pratap Jadhav of Akola, D B Patil of Yavatmal, and Vinayak Korde of Buldhana district.