Rains are vital to India's farm sector, which accounts for about 15 percent of the country's nearly $2 trillion economy.
Organisers said educational campuses are "afflicted with red ideology" and forums like Ambedkar Study Circle (APSC) in IIT-Madras are used for "propagating anti-Hindu and anti-Bharat divisive ideology".
In neighbouring Telangana, where the government has not declared any ex-gratia, 486 deaths have been reported from 10 districts where temperatures have been consistently high.
According to revenue department officials, most of the victims were daily labourers or farmers.
Andhra government has maintained its advice to people to remain indoors from 11 am to 4 pm as the heat wave conditions are likely to continue till Thursday.
Delhiites woke up to cloudy Friday morning, MeT predicts light showers in some areas during the day.
In the last 140 years, over half of the major droughts in India have coincided with the El Niño Southern Oscillation events




