Prime Minister Narendra Modi has called for close coordination between the centre and states on implementing contingency plans to tackle a low monsoon.

He has also asked states to set up fast-track courts to deal with hoarders and black-marketeers to bring down prices.

He pushed for proactive implementation of advance action plan for the monsoon with districts as the unit of planning. The progress of the monsoon was reviewed at a high-level meeting chaired by him in New Delhi yesterday.

The Agriculture Ministry has already prepared a contingency plan for more than 500 districts in view of below average monsoon.

On containing inflation, it was observed at the meeting that the measures taken by the government are bearing a positive effect.