<span style="color: #222222;">Tamilnadu Chief Minister Edappadi Palanisami has said that he will be meeting the Prime Minister on Thursday to request additional funds for restoring normalcy in the six Gaja affected coastal districts of the state. </span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">Talking to reporters in Pudukottai, Palanisamy said that he will urge the Prime Minister to declare these districts as natural disaster zones. <br />''</span>''<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;background:white"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:times new roman;color:#222222">Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Edappadi K Palaniswamy disbursedcyclone relief to some of the people affected in Thanjavur and Pudukkottaidistricts. <o:p /></span></p>''<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;background:white"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">He earlier made an aerial survey of the two districts accompaniedby his deputy O Panneerselvam to see the extent of damages to properties andinfrastructure. </span></p>''<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;background:white"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:times new roman;color:#222222">However, he could not go to Nagapattinam and other places due toinclement weather. <o:p /></span></p>''<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;background:white"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">He announced on Monday a compensation package for loss of lives,houses, paddy, sugarcane and horticulture crops, fishing boats and otherlivelihood resources and allocated one thousand crore rupees.</span></p>''<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;background:white"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:times new roman;color:#222222">Meanwhile, the opposition DMK leader MK Stalin has criticisedthe Chief Minister of avoiding the public who are in crisis by not visitingthem and hearing their grievances.</span></p>''<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;background:white"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:times new roman;color:#222222">Addressing the media in the party headquarters Anna Arivaalayamin Chennai, he said the chief minister has stage-managed an act today bydisbursing the relief packages in just a few pre-planned locations after fivedays since the cyclone made a landfall. </span></p>