T.N. Budget 2024 | Technical cell to be set up to monitor natural calamities
The Hindu
Tamil Nadu government establishes Technical Cell and enhances weather forecasting system with new radars and equipment.
In order to monitor natural calamities such as floods, cyclones and earthquakes, and develop situation-based functional strategies based on risk assessment, the Tamil Nadu government on Monday, February 19, 2024 said that it would establish a Technical Cell.
Furthermore, orders have been issued to set up two C-Band Doppler Radars in Ramanathapuram and Yercaud at a cost of ₹56 crore to enhance the weather forecasting system, Finance Minister Thangam Thennarasu said in the Assembly, while presenting the State Budget for 2024-25.
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The State government has accorded sanction for the procurement of 1,400 new automatic rain gauges and 100 new automatic weather stations to analyse real-time rainfall and Meteorological data at a cost of ₹32 crore.
The Minister also said that additionally, a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) has been signed with the Space Application Centre (SAC) of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) to acquire weather forecasts and avail of their high-speed super computing services.
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