Nearly 60% of the irrigation tanks in Tamil Nadu are not even half-full, despite the State receiving around 33 cm of rainfall in the last two months.
Of a total of 14,139 tanks, the storage in 8,230 tanks ranges from nil to 50%. Three districts — Madurai, Sivaganga, and Pudukottai — account for 3,533 tanks with poor storage. Madurai, despite recording a surplus rainfall of 27% in October and November, has 1,069 tanks under this category. The total number of tanks in the district is 1,340.
In Sivaganga district, which has 1,351 such tanks, there has been no surplus rainfall. Yet, it has registered a positive deviation from the normal.
