The IMD along with the Centre for Earth Sciences andHimalayan Studies(CES & HS) will install 100 automatic weather stations (AWSs) and automatic rain gauge stations (ARGs) for weather predictions in the frontier state of Arunachal Pradesh, some of which may come up in the most inaccessible places close to the LAC bordering China, IMD officials said.
An MoU to this effect was signed between IMD and CES & HS, Arunachal Pradesh government in Itanagar on Monday in the presence of Union minister of earth sciences Kiren Rijiju. “People of Arunachal Pradesh will be benefited with precise weather forecasts and warnings with the increase in meteorological observations in the state,” said Rijiju.