Bhubaneswar: The Odisha Government has achieved a milestone on installation of Manual Surface Observatories in all 30 districts of the State.
The Revenue and Disaster Management Department, and Meteorological Centre, Bhubaneswar (IMD) took the initiative for installation of manual observatory at district headquarters across the State.
Odisha now has a total of 38 manual observatories covering all the 30 districts.
The newly included observatories have been set up at Dhenkanal, Deogarh, Bargarh, Jagatsinghpur, Kendrapada, Nuapada, Khurda and Nabarangpur in this month.
Seven observatories were installed at Nayagarh, Boudh, Chhatrapur, Paralakhemundi, Rayagada, Bhadrak and Jajpur during 2020-21.
Of the total 38 observatories, 10 are fully operated by IMD and rest 28 are operationalised in coordination with the Government of Odisha.