Hyderabad: The Ministry of Jal Shakti (MoJS) on Thursday said the ground water resources in Nalgonda district is in safe category overall. It said that the assessment of dynamic ground water resources of each State and Union Territory (UT) is being annually carried out jointly by Central Ground Water Board (CGWB) and State Nodal or Ground Water departments concerned. As per the latest assessment of 2024, the total annual ground water recharge for Nalgonda district is 1.21 Billion Cubic Meter (BCM) and total annual ground water extraction for all uses has been estimated as 0.572 Billion Cubic Meter (Bcm). The Stage of Ground Water Extraction (SoE), which is a measure of annual ground water extraction over annual extractable ground water resource, arrived at 52.35 per cent for the district as a whole, indicating that the district is in ‘safe’ category overall. Further, out of the total 33 mandals in the district, 25 mandals have been categorized as ‘safe’ and only two have been categorized as ‘over-exploited’. In addition, the CGWB also monitors groundwater levels throughout the country including Nalgonda district four times every year. Perusal of ground water level data of Nalgonda, monitored during November, 2024, indicates that about 95 per cent of monitored wells are showing water levels in the range of 0 – 10 mbgl (meters below ground level) indicating ease of access to groundwater. Further, in order to assess the long term fluctuation in ground water level in Nalgonda district, the water level data collected by CGWB during November 2024 has been compared with the decadal mean of November (2014-2023). Such analysis of water level data indicates that about 65 per cent of the wells monitored have registered a rise in ground water levels. This was stated by the Minister of State for Jal Shakti Raj Bhushan Choudhary while responding to a question raised by Congress MP Kunduru Raghuveer in Lok Sabha on Thursday.
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