Rain lashes India, but skewed across regions: CRISIL's Drip index

Several states and crops grapple with deficient rains

The southwest monsoon has come back strongly in the last couple of weeks with deficiency starkly reducing from 19% of the long period average (LPA), on July 24  to 9% on July 31 and to 5% on August 7. Rains further caught up with the week ending at just 1% below normal. Since overall rain are within 4% deficiency, they can now be said to be normal. 

In central India, rainfall has moved from being most deficient (at 44% at the end of June) to seeing the highest rainfall (5% above normal) as of August 7. However, A few areas have