Mumbai, Feb. 25 -- Maharashtra Revenue Minister Chandrasekhar Bawankule on Tuesday instructed all the fishermen's organisations in the state to prepare a policy for allocating ponds in an equitable manner and determine the pond area according to the number of members of the organisations while allocating ponds.
Speaking at a meeting held in Mantralaya regarding the problems of ground-reservoir fisheries cooperatives, he said that the organisation having 1-25 members should be allocated ponds up to 50 hectares.
A template should be drawn up for this allocation and the responsibility of the same should be assigned to the respective area officers, he said.
He also said that six Project Management Consultants (PMCs) should be appointed to i...