PTI, NEW DELHI: The Prime Minister’s Office has asked the India Meteorological Department (IMD) to advise people on the action they need to take when it issues severe weather warnings, following the recent thunderstorms that killed over 200 people in seven states, a top Ministry of Earth Sciences official has said.
Secretary M Rajeevan said the prime minister was “concerned” over the deaths caused by extreme weather conditions and had asked the IMD to give “actionable points”.
Officials from his ministry and the IMD had been briefing the PMO about the recent thunderstorms, he said.
The PMO and the NDMA (National Disaster Management Authority want alerts issued by the IMD to be more specific, he said.
“We need to really give actionable points on what action people should take,” Rajeevan told PTI.
In a forecast for a severe storm, the PMO and the NDMA felt the IMD had to issue a warning saying, for instance, that “the system is really very severe and you have to be indoors and should avoid going out”, Rajeevan said.
