Earth Sciences Minister Dr. Jitendra Singh today held a high-level meeting to exclusively address the public concerns and inputs in the wake of the ongoing monsoon season across the country. During the meeting, he reviewed upgradation of weather forecasting systems. Dr. Singh said that three radars and 180 automatic weather forecasting systems will be installed in Delhi NCR in the coming time.

 
In Mumbai two radars have been installed and four more are in the pipeline. In Chennai three radars already exist and one more will be installed in Kolkata. The Minister said, this up gradation will continue in other cities also which have more than ten lakh population and will be replicated in tier towns and other remote areas.

Dr Singh said, Delhi will get a massive upgradation weather and rain forecast system. Presently Delhi has 17 Automatic Weather Forecast Centers. The Minister directed to install 50 more systems at the earliest and later up to one hundred. Dr Singh said, these automatic weather forecasting systems provide very specific, precise and time-to-time forecasts.