The India Meteorological Division (IMD) will set up new radars in numerous areas of the nation with the purpose of bettering the forecasts, as per an announcement from the Ministry of Earth Sciences.

Hon’ble MoS (I/C), #MoES, @DrJitendraSingh answered a query by way of a written reply in Lok Sabha on ‘INSTALLATION OF NEW RADAR SYSTEM’.

The @Indiametdept has deliberate new radars throughout the nation. Tentative websites have been chosen the place the radars are deliberate to be put in… pic.twitter.com/iFfYNDi1tp

— MoES GoI (@moesgoi) April 3, 2025

The tentative websites, as per the discharge from the Ministry, the place the radars are deliberate to be put in are:

• 12 no. of C-Band Doppler Climate Radars (DWRs) at Raipur, Mangalore, Ranchi, Lakshadweep, Malda, Aurangabad, Balasore, Sambalpur, Ahmedabad, Bengaluru, Rupsi, and Port Blair.
• 12 no. of X-Band DWRs at Pune, Kolkata, Purnea, Varanasi, Wayanad, Bhubaneswar, Dharwad, Lahaul &Spiti, Aligarh (GoUP), Azamgarh (GoUP), Jhansi (GoUP), Lucknow (GoUP).
• 10 no. of X-Band DWRs for North East tentatively at Jorhat, Tezpur, Aizawl, Namsai, Silchar, Imphal, Dimapur, Mandala High, Central Arunachal Pradesh, & Guwahati.
• 53 radars (8 S-Band, 20 C-Band, and 25 X-Band) are additionally deliberate to be put in throughout the nation beneath the Mission Mausam.  

“The places of the DWRs have been arrived upon contemplating the hole areas within the protection of the present DWR community,” the discharge mentioned. 

Moreover, other than the proposed enchancment within the radar protection, different commentary programs like wind profilers, radio sonde or radio wind, microwave radiometers, and extra, are additionally deliberate beneath the Mission Mausam. 

The implementation of the Mausam Mission is prone to assist in the next methods:

• In capturing and monitoring all of the climate occasions occurring within the nation, in order that no climate system will go undetected.
• Enhance the frequency of nowcasting excessive climate equivalent to thunderstorms, lightning, sturdy winds, and extra, from three hours to at least one hour.
• Enhance the brief and medium vary climate forecast accuracy by about 5 to 10 %.
• Enhance air high quality forecasts by about 5 to 10% within the main metro cities.

Moreover, the discharge said that your complete of India shall be beneath radar protection throughout the subsequent two to 3 years.