Guj: 121 more villages declared scarcity-hit, total at 1,115

May 11, 2016 22:57

One hundred twenty-one villages in parched Saurashtra, north Gujarat and Kutch region were today declared as 'partially scarcity-hit' due to acute shortage of water owing to deficient rainfall in last monsoon, the state government said.

With the latest addition, the total number of such affected villages across Gujarat stands at 1,115, even as all 203 dams in the state had approximately 20 per cent water of their total storage capacity, according to an official release.

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