Distribution of drought prone areas

Areas that get upto 60 centimetres of rainfall annually are the most drought prone.

Almost a quarter of India's land area is prone to drought. Areas that get up to 60 centimetres of rainfall annually are the most drought prone. The drought is almost directly linked to the areal variation in the monsoon, the effect of which lasts for much longer than the actual span of the monsoon.

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NORTH

Jammu and Kashmir - Ladakh

Himachal Pradesh - Lahaul and Spiti

Punjab - South west, Malwa

Haryana - South west

Uttarakhand - Kumaon

Uttar Pradesh - Bundelkhand

WEST

Rajasthan - Marwar, parts of Mewar

Gujarat - Kachchh, north Kathiwar

Madhya Pradesh - Malwa,

Maharashtra - leeward side of Western Ghats

SOUTH

Karnataka - North east

Tamil Nadu - central districts on leeward side of Anamalai Range

Andhra Pradesh - Rayalseema, south Telengana

EAST

Chattisgarh - North, Bastar

Orissa - western interior districts eg Kalahandi

Jharkhand - east Singhbhum, Palamau

West Bengal - Purulia