C’garh among 8 states still with less water in reservoirs

Chhattisgarh remains among seven other states having lesser storage in reservoirs this year compared to last year as per the information available with Union Ministry of Water Resources, River Development and Ganga RejuvenationHimachal Pradesh,Punjab, Jharkhand, Odisha, Gujarat, Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh and Telangana are other states with less water in the reservoirs, it has mentioned.

States having better storage than last year for corresponding period are Rajasthan, West Bengal, Tripura, Maharashtra, Uttarakhand, Andhra Pradesh and Telangana (Two combined projects in both states), Karnataka, Kerala and Tamil Nadu.

The Central region includes States of Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh. There are 12 reservoirs under CWC monitoring having total live storage capacity of 42.30 BCM.

 The total live storage available in these reservoirs is 11.38 BCM which is 27% of total live storage capacity of these reservoirs.

The storage during corresponding period of last year was 38% and average storage of last ten years during corresponding period was 25% of live storage capacity of these reservoirs. Thus, storage during current year is less than the storage of last year but is better than the average storage of last ten years during the corresponding period, it stated.