At the World Summit on Disaster Management in Dehradun, Union Minister Dr Jitendra Singh announced major upgrades to Uttarakhand’s weather monitoring systems. Three new radars and expanded forecasting tools will strengthen disaster preparedness in the Himalayan state.

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• Uttarakhand to receive three new weather radars
• New radars at Haridwar, Pantnagar and Auli
• Adds to existing radars at Surkanda Devi, Mukteshwar, Lansdowne
• Aim: better real-time monitoring and early warnings
• Minister cites rising hydrometeorological hazards in past decade
• Kedarnath 2013 and Chamoli 2021 flagged as key disaster markers
• State now has 33 observatories, 142 AWS, 107 rain gauges
• Nowcast system expansion to give 3-hour predictions
• Warning about illegal riverbed mining, risky construction patterns
• India advancing Himalayan climate studies and regional cooperation