Maharashtra Governor Bhagat Singh Koshyari today announced a slew of measures to cut expenses of Raj Bhavan to make resources available for COVID-19 relief measures.  <br />''<br />''Some of the measures include, deferring car purchase, no new capital works to be undertaken, no new regular recruitment in Raj Bhavan and the practice of offering gifts/ mementos to VVIPS will be discontinued until further orders.<br />''<br />''AIR correspondent reports the series of measures announced by Governor Bhagat Singh Koshyari is estimated to save nearly 10-15 per cent of the budget of the Raj Bhavan in the current financial year. <br />''<br />''The Governor has already contributed his one month salary and further pledged 30 per cent of his salary for one year to the PM CARES FUND for COVID-19. In another development, NCP chief Sharad Pawar has written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi expressing concerns over the ''complete breakdown'' in the real estate sector due to several restrictions and ongoing lockdown over coronavirus pandemic.<br />'' <br />'' In his letter to the PM, Pawar has stated that the real estate sector is suffering heavily due to massive outflux of labourers and halted work & sale for almost three months. <br />''<br />''Meanwhile, over 165 migrant workers were ferried back home to Jharkhand from Mumbai in a chartered flight, which was arranged by the alumni network of a Bengaluru-based law school, making it the first such instance in the country amid the coronavirus-triggered lockdown. <br />''<br />''A 180 seater chartered flight was taken on lease by the National Law School alumni association to ferry 169 migrant workers and five children back to their home town. <br />