Lok Sabha Question No. 4379 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2022-03-30
Subject: Automated Weather Stations
Ministry: EARTH SCIENCES
Asked by: Vivek Narayan Shejwalkar

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF EARTH SCIENCES LOK SABHA

## UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 4379 TO BE ANSWERED ON WEDNESDAY, 30 TH  MARCH, 2022

## AUTOMATED WEATHER STATIONS

## 4379.  SHRI VIVEK NARAYAN SHEJWALKAR:

Will the Minister of EARTH SCIENCES be pleased to state:

- (a) whether the Government has established Automated Weather Stations which aims to provide  accurate  weather  information  to  the  people,  especially  farmers  in  the country; and
- (b) if so, the State/location-wise number of such weather stations?

## ANSWER

## THE MINISTER OF STATE (INDEPENDENT CHARGE) FOR MINISTRY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AND EARTH SCIENCES (DR. JITENDRA SINGH)

- (a) Yes Sir. As on date, the Government has established a network of 918 Automatic Weather stations  (inclusive  of  198  Agro-AWS)  and  1382  Automatic  Rain  Gauges (ARG) across the country.

The 198Agro-AWS have been installed at KrishiVigyanKendras (KVKs) in different agro-climatic zones of the country. The data from Agro-AWS are extensively being used to provide agro-meteorological advisories to the benefit of farmers.

- (b) The state-wise details of AWS and ARGs installed across the country are given in Annexure.

## Annexure

| S. NO.   | STATE               |   AWS+Agro-AWS |   Agro-AWS |   ARG |
|----------|---------------------|----------------|------------|-------|
| 1        | ANDAMAN_AND_NICOBAR |              2 |          0 |     0 |
| 2        | ANDHRA_PRADESH      |             32 |          9 |    61 |
| 3        | ARUNACHAL_PRADESH   |             18 |          2 |    27 |
| 4        | ASSAM               |             35 |          8 |    64 |
| 5        | BIHAR               |             43 |         14 |    28 |
| 6        | CHANDIGARH          |              2 |          0 |     0 |
| 7        | CHHATTISGARH        |             28 |          9 |    33 |
| 8        | DAMAN_AND_DIU       |              2 |          0 |     1 |
| 9        | DELHI               |             12 |          1 |     1 |
| 10       | GOA                 |              4 |          2 |     5 |
| 11       | GUJARAT             |             45 |          9 |    65 |
| 12       | HARYANA             |             32 |          6 |    33 |
| 13       | HIMACHAL_PRADESH    |             25 |          4 |    66 |
| 14       | JAMMU_AND_KASHMIR   |             27 |          4 |    14 |
| 15       | JHARKHAND           |             33 |         17 |    28 |
| 16       | KARNATAKA           |             39 |         12 |    47 |
| 17       | KERALA              |             32 |          3 |    30 |
| 18       | LADAKH              |              4 |          0 |     0 |
| 19       | LAKSHADWEEP         |              2 |          1 |     0 |
| 20       | MADHYA_PRADESH      |             66 |         14 |   101 |
| 21       | MAHARASHTRA         |             63 |         10 |   123 |
| 22       | MANIPUR             |             11 |          1 |     8 |
| 23       | MEGHALAYA           |              9 |          2 |    10 |
| 24       | MIZORAM             |              9 |          1 |    16 |
| 25       | NAGALAND            |             12 |          2 |    14 |
| 26       | ODISHA              |             47 |         10 |   177 |
| 27       | PUDUCHERRY          |              3 |          1 |     1 |
| 28       | PUNJAB              |             30 |          5 |    31 |
| 29       | RAJASTHAN           |             50 |          9 |    64 |
| 30       | SIKKIM              |              5 |          2 |     4 |
| 31       | TAMIL_NADU          |             48 |         10 |    80 |
| 32       | TELANGANA           |             14 |          4 |    54 |
| 33       | TRIPURA             |              5 |          1 |     8 |
| 34       | UTTARAKHAND         |             28 |          3 |    21 |
| 35       | UTTAR_PRADESH       |             68 |         16 |   132 |
| 36       | WEST_BENGAL         |             33 |          6 |    35 |
|          | TOTAL               |            918 |        198 |  1382 |