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Govt to conduct climate study for devt

Himanshu Kaushik | TNN Gandhinagar: Worried about the extreme conditions of droughts and high rainfall in state over the last decade, the Gujarat government has decided to conduct a study on "climate variability and climate change-disaster risk'. According to the proposal, the rainfall data over the last century indicates that the annual pattern is dominated by both extremities of rainfall, especially in northern and western part of the state. In South Gujarat, extremely high rainfall and resultant floods are quite common.