Rohtak, India: The death toll from riots over caste discrimination in a north Indian state has climbed to 10, the area’s police chief said on Sunday, up from earlier estimates of five.

The rioting in Haryana by the Jats, a rural caste, is symptomatic of increasingly fierce competition for government jobs and educational openings in India, whose growing population is set to overtake China’s within a decade.

Rapid urbanisation is putting pressure on water supplies after two years of drought, with the mega-city around the capital New Delhi relying on Haryana to meet much of its needs.

‘No water available now. Still no hope to get it,’ Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia said in a tweet on Sunday morning.

The city government ordered schools to shut on Monday and rationed water supply to residents to ensure that hospitals and emergency services have enough.

The home ministry deployed 50 army columns — or 4,000 troops — and 5,000 paramilitaries from the Border Security Force in an overwhelming show of force to restore order.

It said the situation was returning to normal and roadblocks set up by protesters were being cleared, adding that ‘all measures’ should be taken to avert a disruption in Delhi’s water supplies.

Home Minister Rajnath Singh was expected to meet leaders of the Jat community— which makes up a quarter of the population in Haryana and numbers more than 80 million in northern India — in a bid to defuse the crisis.

Haryana’s police chief said the death toll had risen to 10 and 150 more had been injured. ‘We are trying to identify the conspirators and take action,’ Director General of Police Yash Pal Singal told a televised news conference.