Missive to Centre for Doppler radars in disaster prone Odisha

Bhubaneswar, August 28, 2017: Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Monday urged
the Union Government for installation of installation of the Doppler weather
radars at  Balasore  and Sambalpur at the earliest.

In 2006, the Central Government had decided to install four Doppler
weather radars in the disaster prone Odisha for tracking and monitoring of
real-time weather forecasting. In the mean time, only two radars, one each at
Paradip and Gopalpur, have been installed and made operational.

“This is regarding installation of four Doppler Weather Radars
in the disaster prone State of Odisha for tracking and monitoring of real-time
weather forecasting. The decision for such installation was taken by Government
of India way back in the year 2006.  In
the meantime, two radars, one each at Paradeep and GOpalpur, have been
installed and made operational,” said CM Patnaik in a letter to Union Earth
Sciences and Science and Technology Minister Harsh Vardhan.

“I had sought your personal intervention for taking expeditious
steps for procurement and installation of Radars at Balasore and Sambalpur.  But the  
radars at these locations   are yet
to be installed.  Doppler Radar Stations
at these two stations would   help,   among  
others,   tracking  
of  local  storms 
/  thunderstorms in  the northern  
and  western  parts of the State and providing  of near real-time  forecast to save  many  a
lives,” the CM added.