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When does India declare drought? IMD drops the word from its terminology

One big change in India's drought management is in the IMD's parlance

Sanjeeb Mukherjee New Delhi
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Careful monitoring of the symptoms of drought and early warning are key to effective management of the drought, according to policymakers

Will 2023 be a repeat of 2015? Seven years ago, cumulative rainfall across India during the June-September southwest monsoon season dropped below 90 per cent of the Long Period Average (LPA), to 87.3 per cent.
Thus, 2015 was officially classified as a “deficient” monsoon year.
Since then, there has been no deficient rainfall year. In fact, the past four years —2019, 2020, 2021, and 2022 — were rainfall-surplus years.
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First Published: May 26 2023 | 7:38 PM IST

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