Parts of Maharashtra are getting water supply only once a week, Mr Pawar said.
Maharashtra is India's largest sugar producing state and Andhra Pradesh is the top rice producer.
He also uncovered several radical Hindu groups operating in Maharashtra, according to media reports.
Maharashtra state official Bhushan Gagrani said the death toll is expected to rise further.
The Pardhis, of whom there are more than 200, 000 in Maharashtra, are especially wretched.
About 200 medical teams have left Mumbai for affected towns and villages elsewhere in Maharashtra state.
But Maharashtra chief secretary, Prem Kumar, said no-one could have anticipated the level of rainfall.
The coalition won power in 1995, dislodging the Congress Party, which had long ruled Maharashtra.
As the culture minister of Maharashtra state, of which Bombay is the capital, he doesn't need to.
The Congress party, which rules Maharashtra and heads the national coalition government, is loth to upset him.
At all other times the minister for culture, Pramod Navalkar, is the reigning moral authority in Maharashtra.
Elections in Maharashtra are due later this year, and party leaders are worried about a poor showing.
Folk in Maharashtra are looking for a messiah, and Mr Chavan is the only sensible candidate around.
The state-owned Maharashtra State Electricity Board, which will buy the equity stake on the government's behalf, is broke.
About half of those killed in Maharashtra have died in Mumbai - drowned, electrocuted or buried in landslides.
In the Indian state of Maharashtra, in the early 1970s more food was available than in the Sahel.
BJP-Sena alliance won only 10 of the 48 seats in Maharashtra, down from 33 seats it held before.
Maharashtra, India's largest sugar producer, is facing its worst drought in four decades.
In Maharashtra, the BJP and the Shiv Sena have ruled together since 1995.
It is emblematic of the decay of politics in Mumbai and in Maharashtra, the state in which it sits.
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He was arrested the following September after investigators found a cache of explosives at his home in Latur in Maharashtra.
Wheat and millet crops in Maharashtra have also been hurt by the drought, said Umakant Mangat, the state's agriculture commissioner.
He said the rainfall this year over drought-hit Maharashtra and Karnataka states is expected to be better than last year.
The latest figures reflect efforts to raise revenues, from levying VAT on fizzy drinks in Maharashtra to raising stamp duty.
He served as a state minister for public works in Maharashtra and headed the party's state unit before his elevation.
And in Maharashtra, a state where a housing scam toppled Congress's chief minister last month, a new scandal is brewing.
Reports said the government has roped in a senior bureaucrat from Maharashtra state, Umesh Chandra Sarangi, to negotiate with Mr Hazare.
But Bombay is also the capital of the only state (Maharashtra) where the hardline Hindu party, the Shiv Sena, shares power.
In March, they went together to a shrine devoted to the Indian spiritual guru Sai Baba in the state of Maharashtra.
He says over 4, 000 lorries carrying tomatoes from Maharashtra crossed to Pakistan in the past three months alone, a huge increase.
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