 IMD logo The India Meteorological Department is a government of India organisation that is responsible for meteorological observations, weather forecasts, detecting earthquakes etc. It is located in India's capital, New Delhi. The Government of the India, officially referred to as the Union Governnment, and commonly as Central Government, established by the Constitution of India, is a union federal republic of 28 states and 7 union territories. ...
New Delhi ( नई दिल्ली ) is the capital of India, and is part of the National capital territory of Delhi. ...
Organisation The department is headed by a Director General of Meteorology. There are a total of four junior Additional Directors General at New Delhi and one at Pune. Additionally, there are twenty Deputy Directors General, ten of them located in New Delhi. Pune city, formerly Poona, Maharashtra state, western India, is situated at the junction of the Mula and Mutha rivers. ...
There are six regional Met centres, each under a Deputy Director General. The six regional centres are located in Mumbai (Bombay), Chennai (Madras), New Delhi, Kolkata (Calcutta), Nagpur and Guwahati. There are also sub-units in each state capitals. The Gateway of India is the citys most recognisable landmark, visited by thousands daily. ...
Chennai (செனà¯à®©à¯ˆ in Tamil), formerly known as Madras, is a city on the east coast of Southern India. ...
Kolkata (Bangla: কলকাতা), is the proper Bengali language name for the city formerly known as Calcutta, is the capital of the Indian state of West Bengal, and was once the most populous city in India. ...
Nāgpur (meaning City of the Snakes) is a city located near the geographical center of India, in the state of Maharashtra. ...
Guwahati is the commercial capital of Assam, and the gateway to the seven northeastern states of India. ...
History After a tropical cyclone hit Calcutta in 1864, and the subsequent famines in 1866 and 1871 due to the failure of the monsoons, it was decided to set up a Meteorological organisation under one roof. In meteorology, a cyclone is the rotation of a volume of air about an area of low atmospheric pressure. ...
1864 was a leap year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ...
1866 is a common year starting on Monday. ...
1871 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ...
M.H. Blanford was appointed the first Meteorological reporter to the government of India. In May 1889, Sir John Eliot was appointed as the first Director General of Observatories in the earstwhile capital Calcutta. The headquarters were shifted to Shimla, Pune and then to New Delhi. This article is about the month of May. ...
1889 was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ...
John Eliot is the name of several notable individuals. ...
Shimla Shimla (शिमला) is the capital of Himachal Pradesh and a hill station in North India. ...
Pune city, formerly Poona, Maharashtra state, western India, is situated at the junction of the Mula and Mutha rivers. ...
New Delhi ( नई दिल्ली ) is the capital of India, and is part of the National capital territory of Delhi. ...
Tasks The Meteorological department undertakes observations, communications, forecasting and weather services. IMD was also the first organisation in India to have a message switching computer for supporting its global data exchange. In collaboration with the ISRO, India was the first developing country in the world to have its own geostationary satellite, the INSAT, for continuous weather monitoring, (in particular cyclone warning) of the subcontinent. The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is Indias national space agency. ...
Image taken by INSAT 2-E Indian National Satellite System (INSAT) is a series of multipurpose satellites launched by ISRO for telecommunications, broadcasting, meteorology, and search and rescue services. ...
Mandate - To take meteorological observations and to provide current and forecast meteorological information for optimum operation of weather-sensitive activities like agriculture, irrigation, shipping, aviation, offshore oil explorations, etc.
- To warn against severe weather phenomena like tropical cyclones, norwesters, duststorms, heavy rains and snow, cold and heat waves, etc., which cause destruction of life and property.
- To provide meteorological statistics required for agriculture, water resource management, industries, oil exploration and other nation-building activities.
- To conduct and promote research in meteorology and allied disciplines.
- To detect and locate earthquakes and to evaluate seismicity in different parts of the country for development projects.
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