Union Minister Kiren Rijiju Visits IITM Institute In Pune

Pune 15th July 2023: The Union Minister of Earth Sciences Kiren Rijiju on Saturday visited the Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology (IITM) in Pune. The Union Minister went around all the laboratories and gathered detailed information about all the research projects going on in the institute, which is an autonomous body under the Ministry of Earth Sciences (MoES). He witnessed the functioning of the Pratyush supercomputer, cloud stimulation, lightning phenomenon and other studies which are being carried out in the institute.

On this occasion, signing of two MoUs between IITM Pune and Tezpur University and ARIES, Nainital took place in his presence. The MoU between Director, Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology (IITM), Pune and Registrar, Tezpur University, Tezpur, Assam is for promotion of collaborative research on biosphere-atmosphere exchange of Greenhouse Gases and Energy Fluxes being monitored at the Kaziranga National Park, Assam. The MoU between Director, Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology (IITM), Pune and Registrar, Aryabhatta Research Institute of Observational Sciences (ARIES), Nainital, Uttarakhand, is for promotion of collaborative research on biosphere-atmosphere exchange of Greenhouse Gases and Energy Fluxes being initiated at Devasthal, near Nainital, Uttarakhand.

Speaking on the occasion, Rijiju said, the world has great regards and trusts Indian scientists, who are big players in the global arena. Right from Himalayan region to peninsular India and also to the rest of the world, India is providing weather information, including tsunami warning system, cyclone and heavy rainfall prediction system and others. He said that India is also a leading nation in terms of climate science and has committed towards all the international protocols related to climate change.

“Very soon, we will have a more powerful supercomputer that will help us to go further deep in terms of our forecast capacity and study of various aspects of climate and weather conditions” he added.

The Secretary, Ministry of Earth Sciences, Dr. M. Ravichandran; Director of IITM, Pune Dr. R. Krishnan, along with IITM scientists and officials were also present on the occasion. The Union Earth Sciences Minister also launched Indradhanush Patrika on the occasion.