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Incessant rain to fall in ‘natural calamities’ category: State govt

The Maharashtra Cabinet cleared a decision to include incessant rain in the category of natural calamities. This is likely to help farmers who fail to get government aid even after suffering losses due to rain that doesn’t fall in the category of heavy rainfall. The state government has fixed 65 mm rainfall in a 24-hour period as the criterion to declare natural calamity under the ‘heavy rainfall’ category. It has also added Normalised Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) as an extra criterion to compensate for crop loss.