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| It’s official now: this is a drough |
| With three quarters of all districts receiving deficient rainfall so far and the overall rain deficit worsening since last week
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| INDIA
, 14-August-2009
2:11:21 AM |
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With three quarters of all districts receiving deficient rainfall so far and the overall rain deficit worsening since last week, the country seems headed into the worst drought year over the last two decades. Signalling the seriousness of the crisis, the Government set up a 10-member Empowered Group of Ministers (EGoM) under Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee today to take quick decisions on relief.
As per the Agriculture Ministry’s Crisis Management Plan, a GoM is set up only when there is a “full-blown drought.”
Maharashtra today was the latest to declare 10 of its districts as affected by drought, taking the number of such districts in the country to 177 — more than one-fourth of all districts.
The overall deficiency in rainfall in the entire country has increased from 25 per cent last week to 29 per cent now.
The India Meteorological Department, earlier this week, downgraded its rainfall estimate for the four-month monsoon season from 93 per cent to 87 per cent.
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