Prime Minister Narendra Modi will launch ‘Mission Mausam’, which goals to make the nation a weather-ready and climate-smart nation, on the event of India Meteorological Division’s a hundred and fiftieth Basis Day on Tuesday.
The occasion is being held in Bharat Mandapam right here and the Prime Minister can even deal with the gathering.
The mission goals to make India a weather-ready and climate-smart nation by creating cutting-edge climate surveillance applied sciences and programs.
Mission Mausam will implement high-resolution atmospheric observations, next-generation radars, satellites, and high-performance computer systems.
It is going to additionally deal with bettering the understanding of climate and local weather processes, and supply air high quality knowledge that may assist strategise climate administration and intervention in the long term.
The Prime Minister can even launch the IMD Imaginative and prescient-2047 doc for climate resilience and local weather change adaptation. It consists of plans for climate forecasting, climate administration, and local weather change mitigation.
The Mausam Mission was permitted by the Union Cupboard, chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, in September 2024. It goals to spice up India’s climate and climate-related science, analysis, and providers and higher equip stakeholders, together with residents and last-mile customers, in tackling excessive climate occasions and the impacts of local weather change.
The bold programme, with an outlay of Rs 2,000 crore over two years, will mainly be carried out by the India Meteorological Division, the Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology, and the Nationwide Centre for Medium-Vary Climate Forecasting.
Mission Mausam will immediately profit quite a few sectors, resembling agriculture, catastrophe administration, defence, setting, aviation, water assets, energy, tourism, delivery, transport, vitality, and well being, the communique mentioned, including that it might additionally improve data-driven decision-making in areas resembling city planning, highway and rail transport, offshore operations, and environmental monitoring.
To rejoice the a hundred and fiftieth Basis Day of IMD, a sequence of occasions, actions and workshops have been organised to showcase IMD’s achievements throughout the previous 150 years, its position in making India climate-resilient, and reveal the position performed by authorities establishments in offering numerous climate and local weather providers.
