In a mid-season assessment of this year's south-west monsoon, IMD said that during June and July India received 49 per cent - nearly half - of the season's normal rainfall.

The rainfall from June one to July 31 was "excess to normal" in 28 out of 35 meteorological sub-divisions of the country, covering 73 per cent area, IMD said in a statement today. About 65 per cent of the districts have received normal rainfall. Rainfall was deficient only in seven meteorological sub-divisions west Rajasthan; Saurashtra and Kutch; east MP; Orissa; TN and Pondicherry; Rayalseema (in AP); and Andaman and Nicobar islands. In four of them west Rajasthan, east Madhya Pradesh, Orissa and Rayalseema the deficiency was only marginal.