<h1>Chief minister urges prime minister for permanent sugarcane pricing fix, ethanol offtake, infrastructure funding, flood relief, and water project clearances</h1> The state chief minister met the prime minister to press multiple central interventions: a permanent solution to sugarcane pricing including revision of the frozen MSP, assured ethanol offtake and authority for states to set harvesting/transport costs; establishment of an AIIMS-level institute in Raichur with DPR and land already submitted; release of over Rs 2,100 crore in flood relief and specific NDRF assistance claims (Rs 614.9 crore rescue and Rs 1,521.67 crore recovery); clearance and funding for key irrigation and drinking-water projects (Mekedatu balancing reservoir, Upper Bhadra, Kalasa-Banduri), gazetting the Krishna tribunal award, and settlement of alleged shortfalls in Jal Jeevan Mission central allocations.