In a normal monsoon year, the inflow into SSP from MP at this time would run into lakhs of cusecs. The NCA computes the utilisable flow at different zones of the Narmada Basin at Bargi, Barmanghat, Hoshangabad, ISP, Maheshwar and Sardar Sarovar on the basis of observed flow, upstream utilizations for different uses, change in live storage during the water year and carryover storage available at the beginning of the water year. Until September 14 this year, the Narmada basin has recorded only about 50 per cent of the rainfall it received in 2019-20 and 2020-21.
