Telangana - Nizamabad records temperature of 41.3 degrees Celsius
The city of nizamabad experienced a high of 41.3 degrees Celsius on friday afternoon, turning all of its main thoroughfares and business districts into deserts as people opted to stay inside. This summer's temperatures have been gradually rising in nizamabad, and two deaths have occurred there already: Mohammad Ahmad Sharif, 30, of Nizamabad's Quilla area, and Ramavath Akhil, 5, of Donkal thanda in Indalwai mandal, died on thursday from sunstroke.
In some areas of the nizamabad district, the groundwater table is significantly declining in 15 mandals, signalling a worsening groundwater issue. Farmers and the general public are concerned about the groundwater level in these 15 mandals, which has averaged 12.28 metres. According to district officials, in Pakala village of Sirikonda mandal, the water which was 9.88 metres deep in december last went down to 19.56 metres deep in january and has now reached a depth of 30 metres.
Farmers in the region are fighting to salvage their Yasangi crops since the district's groundwater table has drastically decreased over the past 20 days. The groundwater table is fast decreasing in the following mandals: Mendora, Edappally, Mopal, Mupkal, Nandipet Velmal, Maclure Madanpally, Mendora, Gadkol, Thoompally, Thallapally, Mushirnagar, Ramannapet, and chinna Walgot. Indeed, the groundwater in the mandals of Renjal Dupalli and Dandigutta has dropped to a depth of thirty metres.