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CS & Co brief’s central team over drought conditions in Jharkhand

Ranchi, Dec 7 (UNI) A high level team of the state government led by Chief Secretary Sudhir Tripathi today briefed the team of a Central team, led by Joint Secretary of the Agriculture Department Aatish Chandra, which had come to the state to make an assessment of the drought condition.
Welcoming the team the Chief Secretary said that farmers of the state have high hopes from this team and urged them to cooperate in the interest of the farmers of the state. The officials through a detailed presentation detailed about the drought condition of the state and said that a relief of Rs 818.93 crore has been sought.
Home Secretary S KG Rahate said that due to the delay in the South West Monsoon, which got delayed by 15 days, the average rainfall was hit by 32.96 per cent which resulted in delay in the sowing season while in October due to very less rainfall the ready crop was damaged badly impacting 129 blocks of 18 districts. He said in the last 17 years Jharkhand had faced drought on 10 occasions and the worst situation was in 2015. He said that to address the water issue as immediate relief a sum of Rs 100 crore was released while the hit districts have been given one crore each.
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