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The India Meteorological Department (IMD) and the Christ University (CU), Pune, have entered an MoU for working in the field of weather and climate sciences.
The five-year MoU was inked between Mrutyunjay Mohapatra, director general, IMD, and Fr Lijo Thomas, director, Christ University, Lavasa, during the Stakeholder Consultation Workshop on the National Framework for Climate Services (NFCS) in India Friday.
In 2018, the IMD had installed an Automatic Weather Station (AWS) on the campus. Since then, rainfall, temperature and other vital weather parameters of the neighbouring areas covering more than 18 villages are being recorded. Among these villages falls the Mulshi taluka, one of the heavy rainfall receiving talukas of Pune district, and a major rice-cultivating belt in the region.
The scope of the MoU extends for human resource training and development, research and publications in climate sciences, exchange of knowledge and expertise to train the college students and various efforts to mitigate climate change. The IMD has been interacting with the Data Sciences department of CU to put the IMD’s data to better use.
“Christ University is happy to partner with the IMD at the next level. We look forward to this collaboration through services, research and publications in order to make the next generation conscientised towards climate change and climate action,” said Fr Thomas.
This new partnership is being executed under the capacity building programme, one of the main goals of the proposed NFCS.
