Virendra Pandit Gandhinagar, July 24 This may, perhaps, be the worst thing to have happened in Gujarat economy since Mr Narendra Modi took over as Chief Minister in October 2001 as scarcity, even a drought, looms large in many parts of the State due to lack of adequate rains. The 1990s witnessed as many as four drought years when the then Chief Minister Mr Keshubhai Patel’s Government faced severe water crisis — so much so that water trains had to be sent from Gandhinagar to Jamnagar, a distance of nearly 500 km. The State Government declares a region receiving rainfall below 25 per cent as scarcity hit, while the areas that receive rains between 25 and 35 per cent are declared as semi-scarcity hit areas. Already, lack of rains is a matter of concern for the authorities. After high-level meetings, official sources said that...
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