The Nitish Kumar government, on Wednesday, declared 33 out of the 38 districts of the Bihar state ‘drought-hit’, thereby paving the way for offering relief packages to the affected farmers.
The decision was taken at a special cabinet meeting convened at 1, Aney Marg, official residence of chief minister Nitish Kumar, in view of a marked deficiency in rainfall and depletion in ground water levels in these districts.
The declaration of drought came about a month or so after 20 districts of the state, most of them in north Bihar, were ravaged by floods, which claimed the lives of 200 persons and affected nearly six million others.
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