A Central Team to visit Karnataka on 5th October 2023 to study drought situation

A Central Team is visiting Karnataka tomorrow to study the drought situation. Divided into three teams, they will survey the areas hit by drought for the next four days. Tomorrow the team will visit the Karnataka State Natural Disaster Management Authority in the morning where they will be briefed about the prevailing drought. Later in the day, the teams will leave for districts to gather first-hand information on the drought situation. 

The three teams of Central Observers are led by Central Agriculture and Farmers Welfare Ministry Joint Secretary Ajit Kumar Sahu, Central Water and Sanitation Ministry Additional Adviser D



Rajsekhar, and the third team by Central Water Commission Director Ashok Kumar V. 

They will visit Belagavi, Vijayapura, Bagalkote, Dharwad, Gadag, Koppal, Bellary, Vijayanagar, Chikkaballapura, Tumkuru, Chitradurga, Davangere and Bengaluru rural districts. 

The team will meet senior officials of the Karnataka State Government on October 09. The Karnataka Revenue Minister Krishna Byregowda had informed media persons earlier that 42 lakh hectares of crop loss including two lakh hectares of horticultural crop loss is estimated in 195 taluks in the State.