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Guwahati, March 15 (Agencies): Elaborate preparations are on for a ''divine marriage', believed to be the only solution to an unprecedented drought being faced by Assam, complete with a priest, shamianas, big feast and drums. The only irony is that the bride and bridegroom are a pair of male and female frogs. This is a customary ritual to please the rain god with such marriages taking place in several villages in Assam in the past one week as the State and the entire Northeastern region is suffering from unprecedented drought.
According to the Indian Meteorological Department (IMD), Nagaland, Mizoram, Manipur and Tripura are facing 99 per cent deficiency while Assam and Meghalaya are experiencing 89 per cent deficiency in the average rainfall.
Perhaps, Arunachal Pradesh is a little better off with 84 per cent deficiency, an unprecedented thing for the region, which is generally drenched in rain for most part of the year. Against an average rainfall of 48.5 mm during the period, Arunachal has got just 7.9 mm. It is even worse in the four states of Nagaland, Tripura, Mizoram and Manipur. The IMD record says against an average 17.6 mm of rainfall just 0.2 mm of rainfall has been received so far.
In fact most of the region did not receive any significant rainfall for the past five months casting a long shadow of ecological destruction which could have an adverse and cascading effect starting from agricultural output, tea production and hydro-electric generation, besides health hazards. ''This is a very bad situation. Rarely has the drought period lasted so long,'' IMD Regional Director D K Handique told.
According to him, there had always been some light rain during the winter and around February-March. ''In Northeast India rains during this season are caused by western disturbance. However this time the western disturbance has not moved towards this side. Due to local systems, there is some rain in Arunachal Pradesh and Dibrugarh, Tinsukia, Dhemaji areas but it is not much,'' he said.
Source: The Morung Express
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According to the Indian Meteorological Department (IMD), Nagaland, Mizoram, Manipur and Tripura are facing 99 per cent deficiency while Assam and Meghalaya are experiencing 89 per cent deficiency in the average rainfall.
Perhaps, Arunachal Pradesh is a little better off with 84 per cent deficiency, an unprecedented thing for the region, which is generally drenched in rain for most part of the year. Against an average rainfall of 48.5 mm during the period, Arunachal has got just 7.9 mm. It is even worse in the four states of Nagaland, Tripura, Mizoram and Manipur. The IMD record says against an average 17.6 mm of rainfall just 0.2 mm of rainfall has been received so far.
In fact most of the region did not receive any significant rainfall for the past five months casting a long shadow of ecological destruction which could have an adverse and cascading effect starting from agricultural output, tea production and hydro-electric generation, besides health hazards. ''This is a very bad situation. Rarely has the drought period lasted so long,'' IMD Regional Director D K Handique told.
According to him, there had always been some light rain during the winter and around February-March. ''In Northeast India rains during this season are caused by western disturbance. However this time the western disturbance has not moved towards this side. Due to local systems, there is some rain in Arunachal Pradesh and Dibrugarh, Tinsukia, Dhemaji areas but it is not much,'' he said.
Source: The Morung Express
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