Monsoon fills up all Major Dams in and around Jaipur

Rajasthan capital Jaipur and the other parts of the state, have received heavy rainfall at many places in the last few weeks. The almost regular rains in the city have provided plentiful of water to all major reservoirs in and around the Jaipur city.

An officer from the Jaipur MET office said that it is expected that the state will get more rainfall when compared to last year. He also told that 3 more spells of south west monsoon are left according to experts.

Let’s check out the water levels different dams in the state have attained this season till date.

Reservoir	Place	Attained water level	Full capacity
Jawahar Sagar	Kota	297.24RL/m	298.70RL/m
Kota Barrage dam	Kota	259.17RL/m	260.30RL/m
Parvati dam	Dholpur	230.10RL/m	223.41RL/m
Mahi dam	Banswara	272.10RL/m	281.50RL/m
Bisalpur		310.55RL/m	315.50RL/m

9% increase in rainfall

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The Rajasthan state has received a rainfall of 317.55 mm till July, 2016 when compared to receiving 249.38 mm in 2015 by this time. So far, the state has received 9% more rainfall than last year’s rainfall by this time.