931 more villages declared drought-affected in Maharashtra
The Maharashtra government on Thursday declared another 931 villages in the state 'drought-affected'. âThese villages got less than 75% of the average rainfall or a crop produce less than 50% of the estimate," the state Relief and Rehabilitation Minister Chandrakant Patil said. Earlier, the Union government had announced 151 of the 358 tehsils in Maharashtra as drought-affected in October.