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IMD issued regular advisories w.r.t. heavy rainfall and strong winds in association with the system

❄ Environment 🗓 Sunday November 29 2020 👁 265
The Cyclone Warning Division of the India Meteorological Department (IMD) has come out with the preliminary report on very severe cyclonic storm "NIVAR" over Bay of Bengal during 22nd - 27th November, 2020. Salient features of the report are discussed herewith: A low pressure area formed over Equatorial Indian Ocean (EIO) and adjoining central parts of south BoB on 21st November. It concentrated into a depression over the same region in ... Read More

Seasonal Outlook for the Temperatures during December 2020 to February, 2021

❄ Environment 🗓 Sunday November 29 2020 👁 265
According to the India Meteorological Department (IMD): Highlights During the upcoming winter season (December to February), below normal minimumtemperatures are likely over most subdivisions of north, northwest, central and fewsubdivisions over east India. Background Since 2016, India Meteorological Department (IMD), Ministry of Earth Sciences (MoES) has beenissuing seasonal forecast outlooks for subdivision scale ... Read More

Haryana Government comes up with an innovative solution for Water testing; Launches State of the Art Mobile Water Testing Laboratory Van

❄ Environment 🗓 Monday October 12 2020 👁 408
The supply of clean and safe water is essential for public health therefore, ensuring supply of water along with regular testing is imperative. The Jal Jeevan Mission of the Ministry of Jal Shakti aims to provide tap water connection to every rural home by 2024. The work under this mission is being done on war footing and the mission gives a lot of emphasis on water quality surv ... Read More

Low Pressure area over north Andaman Sea & adjoining east central Bay of Bengal

❄ Environment 🗓 Saturday October 10 2020 👁 424
According to the Cyclone Warning Division of the India Meteorological Department (IMD): A Low Pressure area has formed over north Andaman Sea and neighbourhood in the early morning of today the 09th October 2020. It lay over north Andaman Sea and adjoining east central Bay of Bengal in the morning (0830 hrs IST) of today, the 09th October 2020. It is very likely to move west-northwestwards & intensify into a Depression over central Bay of Bengal by tomorrow ... Read More

The dynamic, impact-based cyclone warning system will be commissioned experimentally from this season: Dr. Mrutyunjay Mohapatra, DGM, IMD

❄ Environment 🗓 Thursday October 8 2020 👁 418
Director General of IMD, Dr.Mrutyunjay Mohapatra has said that the India Meteorological Department will soon launch a dynamic, impact-based cyclone warning system, aimed at minimising economic losses and damage to property due to the cyclones that hit Indian coasts every year.He was speaking on the t ... Read More

Salient Features of Monsoon 2020

❄ Environment 🗓 Thursday October 1 2020 👁 386
The India Meteorological Department (IMD) has issued the following information on India Monsoon 2020: Ø Quantitatively, the 2020 All India monsoon seasonal rainfall during 1 June to 30 September 2020 has been 95.8 cm against the long period average of 88.0 cm based on data of 1961-2010 (109% of its Long Period Average (LPA)). Ø Considering the recent years since 1990, the all India seasonal rainfall this year was third highest, after 112% of LPA in 1994 ... Read More

Withdrawal of southwest monsoon from some parts of northwest India today, the 28th September, 2020

❄ Environment 🗓 Monday September 28 2020 👁 411
According to the National Weather Forecasting Centre of the India Meteorological Department: In view of the establishment of an anti-cyclonic circulation in the lower tropospheric levels over western parts of northwest India and substantial reduction in moisture content & rainfall, the southwest monsoon has withdrawn from some parts of west Rajasthan and Punjab today, the 28th September, 2020 against its normal date of 17th September. · Past ... Read More

100% Source Segregation & Waste Processing should be Focussed– Durga Shanker Mishra

❄ Environment 🗓 Thursday September 24 2020 👁 385
Shri Durga Shanker Mishra, Secretary, Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs (MoHUA), during his interaction with the Chief Secretary/Principal Secretary/ senior officials of the States of Himachal Pradesh & Uttarakhand has emphasized that 100% source segregation and waste processing should be the focus and home composting encouraged by the States. He also said that sustainable models of C&D waste should be installed. He was chairing a meeting to review the progress of Urban Missions, namely, Swac ... Read More

Union Minister for Agriculture and Farmers Welfare Shri Narendra Singh Tomar launches Centralized Farm Machinery Performance Testing Portal in the Public Domain

❄ Environment 🗓 Thursday September 24 2020 👁 378
Union Minister for Agriculture and Farmers Welfare Shri Narendra Singh Tomar today launched in the public domain, the “Centralized Farm Machinery Performance Testing Portal” which has been developed by the Department of Agriculture, Cooperation and Farmers Welfare as a further step to improve services of farm machinery testing institutions and bringing out transparency in the entire process of testing and evaluation of machines. Speaking on the occasion, Shri Narendra Singh Tomar sa ... Read More

Enhanced rainfall activity over Peninsular India, East andNortheast India during 19th-23rd September, 2020

❄ Environment 🗓 Saturday September 19 2020 👁 422
According to the National Weather Forecasting Centre/Regional Meteorological Centre, New Delhi of the India Meteorological Department (IMD): A) Weather Systems: · A Low Pressure Area is very likely over Northeast Bay of Bengal by tomorrow, the 20th September, 2020. It is likely to become more marked over Northwest Bayof Bengal during subsequent 24 hours. · Strengthening of lower level winds and its convergence along the west coast is ... Read More

GRAND ICT CHALLENGE for Smart supply measurement and monitoring system under Jal Jeevan Mission

❄ Environment 🗓 Friday September 18 2020 👁 384
National Jal Jeevan Mission in partnership with Ministry of Electronics & Information Technology (MEITY) has launched an ICT Grand Challenge to create innovative, modular, and cost-effective solution to develop a ‘Smart Water Supply Measurement and Monitoring System’ to be deployed at the village level. The ICT grand challenge will be inviting proposal from Indian Tech start-ups, ... Read More

Loss due to Floods

❄ Environment 🗓 Thursday September 17 2020 👁 379
Floods are natural calamity that the country faces almost every year, in varying degrees of magnitude, leading to a loss of lives and property. The occurrence of floods can be attributed to various factors, including wide variations in rainfall both in time and space with frequent departures from the normal pattern, inadequate carrying capacities of rivers, river bank erosion and silting of river beds, landslides, poor natural drainage in flood prone areas, snowmelt and glacial lake out-bursts. The schem ... Read More

National Water Policy

❄ Environment 🗓 Thursday September 17 2020 👁 413
To address the present challenges in water sector, revision of National Water Policy has been envisaged and a drafting committee has been constituted on 5th November, 2019 to revise the National Water Policy within a term of six months. Due to the work being affected due to COVID-19 pandemic, the term of the Committee has been extended up to 31st October, 2020.The said committee is working towards finalizing its report at present. The proposed National Bureau of Water Use Efficiency (NBWUE) wil ... Read More

Union Power Minister lays foundation stone for construction of LILO of Kishenganj-Darbhanga 400kV Transmission Line at Saharsa in Bihar

❄ Environment 🗓 Sunday September 13 2020 👁 384
Shri R. K. Singh, the Union Minister of State(I/C) for Power and New & Renewable Energy, laid foundation stone for construction of LILO of Kishenganj-Darbhanga 400kV Transmission Line at Saharsa in Bihar through a virtual event. The execution agency for the ₹ 100 crore worth project is POWERGRID Ltd., a central PSU under Ministry of Power. While praising the ... Read More

Krishna-Godavari (KG) basin, an excellent source of fuel methane

❄ Environment 🗓 Saturday September 12 2020 👁 390
As the world runs out of fossil fuels and looks out for alternate sources of clean energy, there is good news from the Krishna-Godavari (KG) basin. The methane hydrate deposit in this basin is a rich source that will ensure adequate supplies of methane, a natural gas. Methane is a clean and economical fuel. It is estimated that one cubic meter of methane hydrate contains 160-180 cubic meters of methane. Even the lowest estimate of methane present in the methane hydrates in KG Basin is twice tha ... Read More

Hardeep S Puri launches Climate Smart Cities Assessment Framework (CSCAF 2.0) and Streets for People Challenge

❄ Environment 🗓 Friday September 11 2020 👁 377
Shri Hardeep Singh Puri, Minister of State for Housing and Urban Affairs (I/C) has launched the Climate Smart Cities Assessment Framework (CSCAF) 2.0, along with the ‘Streets for People Challenge’ in a virtual event organized by the Smart Cities Mission, Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs (MoHUA), here today. The objective of CSCAF is to provide a clear roadmap for cities towards combating Climate Change while planning and implementing their actions, including investments. In the last deca ... Read More

Deep Depression over Eastcentral Arabian Sea: Cyclone Alert for north Maharashtra - south Gujarat coasts: Yellow message

❄ Environment 🗓 Tuesday June 2 2020 👁 480
According to the National Weather Forecasting Centre/Regional Specialised Meteorology Centre/Cyclone Warning Divisionof the India Meteorological Department: The DeepDepression over Eastcentral Arabian Sea moved northwards with a speed of 11 kmph during past 06 hours and lay centred at 0830 hours IST of today, the 02nd June, 2020 over Eastcentral Arabian Sea near latitude 15.3°N and longitude 71.2°E, about 280 km west of Panjim (Goa), 450 km south-southw ... Read More

Amphan Cyclone Relief Fund

❄ Environment 🗓 Friday May 29 2020 👁 440
Amphan Cyclone Relief Fund The horrifying cyclone Amphan has wreaked havoc all across West Bengal. Numerous people have been affected by it. A catastrophe of this scale has never been witnessed before. Each one of us must come forward and work shoulder to shoulder to save the state from this situation. With the aim to rise above this crisis, state government has set up a special relief fund. Support your government by donating money to this fund. Relief Fund ... Read More

Agriculture Minister Shri Narendra Singh Tomar launches All India Agri Transport Call Centre numbers 18001804200 and 14488 to facilitate inter-state movement of perishables during lockdown

❄ Environment 🗓 Wednesday April 15 2020 👁 576
The Union Minister of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare, Shri Narendra Singh Tomar launched the All India Agri Transport Call Centre at a function in Krishi Bhavan today to facilitate inter-state movement of perishables in the current situation of lockdown due to the COVID-19 threat. The Call Centre numbers are 18001804200 and 14488. These numbers can be called from any mobile or landline phones any time of the day or night. ... Read More

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