What Centre Said About India's Early Warning System For Natural Disasters
New Delhi: The Union Ministry of Earth Science on Wednesday, December 3, responded to the question regarding the early warning system for natural disasters. Shiv Sena UBT MP Arvind Ganpat Sawant had asked whether the Government has any institutional mechanism in place for forecasting major natural events such as cyclones, unseasonal rainfall, earthquakes, floods.
The Centre in it response stated that the government has established an organized institutional mechanism for observing, monitoring and forecasting major natural events such as cyclones, unseasonal rainfall, adding that the Ministry of Earth Sciences (MoES) serves as the nodal
Ministry responsible for coordinating these efforts.
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“Under this Ministry, the India Meteorological Department (IMD), in coordination with institutions such as the Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology (IITM), Pune, the National Centre for Medium Range Weather Forecasting (NCMRWF), Noida, and the Indian National Centre for
Ocean Information Services (INCOIS), Hyderabad, works round the clock to observe, monitor, detect and provide forecasting and warning services for major atmospheric– oceanic natural events. These include cyclones, unseasonal and heavy rainfall,
thunderstorms, fog, etc.,” it added.
It further pointed out that there is no scientific technique available now anywhere in the world to predict an earthquake precisely in terms of time, location and magnitude, and hence no proven system exists in the country to provide early warning of earthquakes.
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When asked about the steps taken by the Government to prevent loss of life and property or to minimize natural disasters’ losses, the government said a number of steps have been undertaken. For improving the detection and prediciton of these events a more granular and temporal scale, there has been a quantum jump in the weather observational and modeling systems, it pointed out.
