Lucknow, July 15 - Chief Minister Mayawati is out to impress the 13th Finance Commission whose members are here look into Uttar Pradesh's financial demands out of the central government's kitty.

Top bureaucrats have been on their toes right from the time Finance Commission chief Vijay Kelkar landed here Tuesday night along with B.K. Chaturvedi, Indra Raja Raman, Atul Sharma, Sanjeev Misra and Soumit Bose.

Apart from ensuring their reception in new Honda City cars, the officials even halted traffic to provide an unhindered clear passage from the airport to the Taj Hotel, causing much inconvenience to other motorists on the city's main thoroughfare for some time.

Mayawati is leaving no stone unturned to demand her pound of flesh from the Commission.

Apart from renewing her earlier demand for a special development package of Rs.80,000 crores for Uttar Pradesh's backward regions - Bundelkhand and Purvanchal, she proposes to demand a major debt relief package.

Lowering of rate of interest, both on pending and fresh loans, was stated to be high on her list of demands.