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Appraise why drought is one of the most common climatic extremes in India.

  • UPSC 2021
  • Contemporary Issues

The claim holds, and not because India is dry — at about 118 cm of mean annual rainfall it is among the wetter large countries. Its rainfall is structurally unreliable, so a normal total is no protection. Drought is an episodic moisture deficit, not desertification, a permanent land degradation.

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