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Centre to announce one-time grant

Kohima April 18. The Centre will soon announce a one-time grant of Rs. 365 crores to Nagaland as `peace grant' to wipe out the State's accumulated deficit, official sources said today.The Finance Minister, Jaswant Singh, promised to sanction the grant after getting the approval from the Prime Minister, A.B Vajpayee.

The Nagaland Chief Minister, Neiphiu Rio, expressed difficulties faced by the Democratic Alliance Government (DAN) and said his Government had inherited a huge deficit from the previous Congress Government. He also met the Union Minister for Urban Development, Ananth Kumar, and discussed key projects for the State. The BJP national president, Venkaiah Naidu, also assured Mr. Rio that the party would extend all help to the DAN Government. — UNI

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