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PM Modi reviews drought and water scarcity situation at high level meeting with Gujarat CM
New Delhi, May 16 (IBNS) Prime Minister Narendra Modi met Chief Minister of Gujarat, Anandiben Patel on Monday to discuss the drought and water scarcity situation in parts of Gujarat.
Chief Minister of Gujarat mentioned that 1.68 lakh check dams, 2.74 lakh farm ponds, 1.25 lakh Bori Bandhs have been built with storage capacity of 42.3 billion cubic feet water, benefiting 6.32 lakh hectares.
She also said that piped water supply is being provided to 77 per cent of households in the state.
In spite of deficient rainfall for the second consecutive year, the work done for the state water grid has resulted in only 568 tankers being required for water distribution in some remote tail areas, the PM was informed.
The meeting also revealed that one hundred per cent coverage of drip/sprinkler irrigation has been achieved in 3789 villages in Gujarat and that measures undertaken by the state government have resulted in a reasonable amount of drought-proofing, despite deficient (about 80 per cent of long-term average) and skewed temporal distribution of rainfall.
Despite two successive years of drought, crop production in the state has been estimated at 95 per cent of the normal.
Image: The Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, chairing a high level meeting on drought and water scarcity with the Chief Minister of Gujarat, Smt. Anandiben Patel, in New Delhi on May 16, 2016.
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