The Central Water Commission (CWC) has released the state-wise and national-level annual data on human and economic costs associated with floods or excessive rainfall for the last 64 years at a time when the North East is devastated by nature's fury. That data indicates that on an average 3.2 crore Indians were affected by floods or excessive rainfall every year between 1953 and 2016. Floods or downpours took a heavy toll...
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Changing rainfall patterns cause for worry in India -Nidhi Jamwal
-India Climate Dialogue The meteorological department’s analysis of annual rainfall for the past 50 years has found significant increasing or decreasing trends in districts that could put a spanner into India’s food security scenario. Since June 13, there has been a hiatus in the advance of southwest monsoon in the country due to the weakening of its circulation pattern. This dry spell is expected to soon change as the monsoon is likely...
More »Expect flooded Delhi roads again this monsoon -Paras Singh
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: Thursday’s scenes of waterlogged roads and long traffic jams in rain-hit Mumbai could well be playing out in Delhi a few weeks later. For, the deadline set for de-silting of drains in the capital is just eight days away and the civic agencies are woefully behind schedule. The situation is particularly worrisome in East Delhi, where the municipal corporation has only been able to achieve barely...
More »Mining and agriculture lag behind other sectors in terms of GVA growth in Jan-Mar '18
The country’s agrarian sector in the last financial year expanded at almost half the rate at which it grew in 2016-17, shows the recently released provisional estimates by the Central Statistics Office (CSO). As compared to a growth rate of 6.3 percent witnessed in 2016-17, the growth rate in real Gross Value Added (GVA) by the agrarian sector (i.e., increase in agricultural GVA after neutralizing the effect of price inflation)...
More »India's agriculture growth slips to 4.5% in Q4 on higher base -Sanjeeb Mukherjee
-Business Standard For 2017-18, overall full year, growth in agriculture and allied activities was estimated at 3.4 per cent as against 6.3 per cent clocked in 2016-17 India’s agriculture growth in the January to March quarter of 2017-18 dipped to 4.5 per cent as compared to 7.1 per cent in the same period last year despite a bumper production largely because of higher base. Though, the 4.5 per cent growth in agriculture and...
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