Gandhinagar: The lack of monsun has thinned water levels in dam status and water storage of the dam is 47.54% of their total gross storage capacity, Narmada and water resources, water supply and the Kalpsar department said on Wednesday.
Even when the water surface in more than 200 dams and reservoirs in the country remains less than half of their total storage capacity, the state government has decided to supply water from the dam to irrigate around 5 hectares of land to prevent plant damage.
The Indian Meteorology Department (IMD) on Wednesday said rainfall in Gujarat remained lacking, with departure -45% of normal rainfall which was recorded so far.
According to the IMD report, Gujarat has reported departure -45% of normal rainfall between June 1 and June 10.
Like opposing normal rainfall of 458.8mm for this period, the state only accepts 252.7mm rainfall, the weather department, stated.
Only five out of 207 dam filled with full, and four of them were in the Saurashtra area and one in South Gujarat, the government said on Wednesday.
As has been completed at 75.73.106 hectares of land in the current Kharif season, the state government has decided to supply water from dam to harvest stand at 5 hectares of land after securing drinking water supply until September 30, the state government release stated in the day Tuesday.
Of the 33 Gujarat Regency, Aravalli and Gandhinagar have reported the rainfall “big deficiency” so far this season, while 31 remains have reported rainfall “shortcomings”, according to the IMD report.
According to wise zone data provided by the State Emergency Operations Center, South Gujarat has received 36.39% of average annual rainfall, followed by the East Central Region with 34.72%, Saurashtra with 33.8%, KUTP with 31, 74% and the northern part of the country with 31.2%.