Telangana receives 18% excess rainfall

Ch Sushil Rao / TNN / Aug 13, 2020, 18:23 IST

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The state has received excess rainfall this season up to July this year. The ground water department on Thursday said that the state recorded 18% excess rainfall as compared to the normal rainfall during the same period.

A waterlogged street in Hyderabad

HYDERABAD: The state has received excess rainfall this season up to July this year. The ground water department on Thursday said that the state recorded 18% excess rainfall as compared to the normal rainfall during the same period.
The status of ground water level scenario report for 2020-21 up to July 2020 said the rainfall received was 439.8mm as against the normal rainfall of 373.4mm.

Out of 33 districts, 16 received excess rainfall, 15 received normal rainfall and two received deficit rainfall.
Also, out of the 589 mandals, 266 received excess rainfall (+20% and above to normal), 249 received normal rainfall (-19 to +19 %) and 74 received deficit rainfall (-20 % to -59 %).

The districts which have received excess rainfall, which is more than 20 per cent of the normal, are Bhadradri Kothagudem (22%), Hyderabad (22%), Mahbubabad (22%), Warangal urban (22%), Sircilla 23 (23%), Medak (25%), Khammam (30%), Ranga Reddy (33%), Nagarkurnool (36%), Jangaon (45%), Vikarabad (52%), Siddipet (59%), Mahbubnagar (89%), Narayanpet (108%), Wanaparthy (116%) and Jogulamba Gadwal (161%) excess rainfall.

Districts, which received normal rainfall, are Jagityal, Adilabad, Kumarambheem, Mancherial, Peddapally, Warangal rural, Jayashankar Bhupalpally, Mulugu, Kamareddy, Medchal, Nalgonda, Karimnagar, Suryapet, Sangareddy and Yadadri Bhuvanagiri.
According to the ground water department, Nizambad and Nirmal received deficit rainfall. While the deficit for Nizamabad was -24% and for Nirmal it was -30%.

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Ch Sushil Rao

Sushil Rao is Editor-Special Reports, at The Times of India, Hyderabad. He began his journalism career at the age of 20 in 1988. He is a gold medalist in journalism from the Department of Communication and Journalism, Arts College, Osmania University, Hyderabad from where he did his post-graduation from. He has been with The Times of India’s Hyderabad edition since its launch in 2000. He has also done an introductory course in film studies from the Film and Television Institute of India, Pune, and also from the Central University of Kerala equipping himself with the knowledge of filmmaking for film criticism. He has authored four books. In his career spanning 34 years, he has worked for five newspapers and has also done television reporting. He was also a web journalist during internet’s infancy in the mid 1990s in India. He covers defence, politics, diaspora, innovation, administration, the film industry, Hyderabad city and Telangana state, and human interest stories. He is also a podcaster, blogger, does video reporting and makes documentaries.

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