The monsoon is progressing normally and is likely to reach Maharashtra in the next two days, the India Meteorological Department said on Thursday.
The accounts for around 70 per cent of the country's annual and is considered the lifeline of its agriculture-based economy.
The scientist said conditions are favourable for the further advance of monsoon over Goa and some more parts of Maharashtra, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu in the next two days.
Assam was hit by a wave of floods last month.
Last year, the had forecast that the monsoon would arrive in Delhi nearly two weeks before its usual date (June 27).
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