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Devendra Fadnavis’ drought-free Maharashtra plan by 2019 comes a cropper Second part of the series maps how over 40% talukas in the state still face water crisis Economy :-In April 2016, Maharashtra worked the water train to supply drinking water to dry spell influenced Latur. Around the same time, the state set out on its Jalyukt Shivar Abhiyan to move toward becoming dry spell free by 2019. In spite of the goal-oriented arrangement, 40 percent of the state is reeling from dry season and its water tanker economy is blasting. Jalyukt Shivar Abhiyan went for making Maharashtra a dry season free state by extending and broadening streams just as developing concrete and earthen stop dams, nullahs and burrowing ranch lakes. Yet, as of February 2019, the state government pronounced dry season in 151 of the 358 talukas. In these talukas, 28,524 towns have been announced dry season influenced. Of this, 112 are serious dry season hit. While activists state that the Jalyukt plan h...

Nearly 50% of India is currently facing drought: IIT Gandhinagar scientists The continuing drought will further burden the already depleting groundwater resources of the country About  50 percent  of the nation is presently confronting  draught  less than 16 percent falling in the “outstanding” or “outrageous” class, as per IIT Gandhinagar researchers dealing with India’s ongoing dry season expectation framework. This continuous dry spell will represent a great deal of difficulties in water accessibility this late spring, Vimal Mishra, partner teacher at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) here, told  PTI . The constant observing framework kept running by his group, which incorporates PhD understudy Amardeep Tiwari, gathers climate and precipitation information from the India Meteorological Department (IMD), which is then used to reproduce soil dampness and different variables that add to dry spell. The aftereffects of the reproductions, a...