India will get a more than normal monsoon this year, the India Meteorological Department announced on Tuesday.
IMD Director General Laxman Singh Rathore said the monsoon would be 6 percent above normal this year after two years of deficient rainfall. It was 14 percent less last year.
"An above normal monsoon is expected, " Rathore told the media. "By and large the monsoon will be equitably distributed. "