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Over 85% of such districts, prone to drought risk, are in Bihar, Assam, Jharkhand, Odisha, Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Chhattisgarh, Kerala, Maharashtra, Uttarakhand and Haryana.

The report comes at a time when India's per capita availability has been witnessing a steady decline as it currently stands at 1,545 cubic metre from the highs of 5,200 cubic metres in 1950s and 2,309 cubic metres in 1990s.

Biju Janata Dal leader Debashish Samantaray too said that Constitutional watchdogs have been converted into "pet-dogs".

The IAF is deficient of 130 trainer aircraft as the force has only 238 such planes to take the rookie pilots to the sky as against the sanctioned strength of 368, officials said while appraising the panel.

Shah charged the Congress party for treating the Constitution as the 'private fiefdom', while claiming that the principal opposition wanted to breach the 50% quota limit in order to provide reservation to Muslims and never worked for the welfare of the backward class.

Among the southern states, Telangana tops the list with 60.7 per cent caesarean delivery followed by Tamil Nadu (44.9 per cent), Andhra Pradesh (42.4 per cent), Kerala (38.9 per cent) and Karnataka (31.5 per cent).

In one of the country's worst military tragedies, the IAF chopper ferrying Gen Rawat, his wife, seven Indian Army and five IAF personnel (all CDS staff) crashed in the Nilgiri forest near Ooty minutes before its scheduled touch down at the Defence Services Staff College, Wellington killing 13 of the 14 individuals on the spot.

Of 45 Ghat districts in six states, decadal forest loss has been recorded in 25.

States like Maharashtra, Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Odisha and Karnataka have been complaining about poor supply of TB medicines for nearly a year.

The report doesn’t mention the reasons for forest areas turning into non-forest in ten years but maintains that such areas can include crop lands, settlements, water bodies, grassland, snow clad areas and desert.