Monsoon to continue in 'active phase' over central India: IMD

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This has prompted Met department to issue red alerts for different days for Odisha, Gujarat, parts of western Maharashtra and Konkan region, including Goa, for the next three days, asking local authorities to take appropriate precautionary measures.The reduction in monsoon deficit in next one week will specially benefit central India which had recorded the highest deficit of 50% as of June 30.This figure for central India went down to 23% as of Saturday.

Rainfall deficit of 41% in east & northeast India, however, continues to be a matter of concern as it has severely impacted the sowing of kharif (summer sown) crops in Bihar, Jharkhand and eastern Uttar Pradesh.Meanwhile, monsoon is gradually progressing to cover the remaining parts of the country in the northwest. “Conditions are favourable for further advance of southwest monsoon into some more parts of Gujarat, remaining parts of Haryana and Punjab, and some more parts of Rajasthan during the next four days,” said IMD, hinting at the entire country being covered by the normal date of July 8.

Get the latest India news and live updates. Download the TOI App.About the AuthorVishwa MohanVishwa Mohan is Senior Editor at The Times of India.

He writes on environment, climate change, agriculture, water resources and clean energy, tracking policy issues and climate diplomacy. He has been covering Parliament since 2003 to see how politics shaped up domestic policy and India’s position at global platform. Before switching over to explore sustainable development issues, Vishwa had covered internal security and investigative agencies for more than a decade.

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