Acknowledging the hardships of Tsunami affected fishermen of Puducherry, Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee has ordered relaxation of relevant rules to ensure that these fishermen can avail enhanced benefit on their security deposits. An official release says, this relaxation will give an estimated benefit of 1.22 crore rupees to 5563 Tsunami affected fishermen of Puducherry.Earlier, fishermen in Puducherry had availed loans for purchase of fishing boats and country crafts and, as per the design of this scheme, security deposit was obtained from these fishermen in the form of cash.