India News | Maha NCP Leader Offers Palace, Bungalow for COVID-19 Fight

Pune, Sep 6 (PTI)NCP leader Ramraje Naik-Nimbalkar has offered two properties, including a grand royal heritage palace located in Phaltan in western Maharashtra's Satara district, to the administration to set up COVID-19 centres.

Nimbalkar wrote to the Satara district administration about the decision.

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"We have offered Vikram Vilas, a bungalow in Songaon owned by my cousin Raghunath Raje Naik Nimbalkar, as well as Mudhoji Manmohan Rajwada, a heritage palace in Phaltan, to the district administration," he told PTI.

"There are several rooms in the palace and it can be turned into a temporary COVID-19 centre. Cases are increasing in rural centres and infrastructure is lacking so it was decided by the trust to offer these two properties," Nimabalkar said.

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He said the trust would provide other support as well to contain the outbreak.

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