With the onset of the monsoon, the risk of floods, landslides, and other water and weather-related disasters is increasing, but meteorological measurement centers have not yet been established in 30 local levels of Karnali Province.
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With the onset of monsoon, the risk of floods, landslides and other water and weather-related disasters is increasing, but 30 local levels of Karnali Province have not yet established weather measurement centers. The absence of such centers, which are considered the basis of weather data collection and early warning systems, has added challenges to risk assessment and disaster management.
At a program on monsoon preparedness and disaster risk reduction organized in Surkhet on Wednesday, Dr. Indira Kandel, Head of the Hydrology and Meteorology Office, Surkhet, informed that there are still no weather measurement centers in 30 local levels of Karnali.
She made a presentation on the role of the department and subordinate offices in water and weather-related disaster risk reduction and management and the climate assessment of the monsoon season 2083, and said that it is necessary to establish centers at local levels to expand the weather-related information system.
‘The lack of weather measurement centers is causing problems in collecting rainfall, temperature, wind speed and other weather-related data,’ she said. ‘This has also affected the flow of early warning and disaster preparedness at the local level.’ Karnali Province Chief Secretary Birendra Kumar Yadav said that the provincial government will provide assistance in managing the necessary equipment at local levels without weather measurement centers.
‘As 30 local levels in Karnali still do not have weather measurement centers, the provincial government will provide assistance in the necessary equipment for their management,’ he said. ‘We are committed to working effectively in disaster risk reduction by expanding the weather information system to the local level.’
It is estimated that 226,661 people from 59,868 households across the country will be affected by the monsoon disaster of 2083 BS, said Ujjwal Adhikari, Karnali Province Coordinator of the People in Need (PIN)’s Committed-3 Project. The impact of monsoon-related disasters is expected to be greatest in Lumbini Province, where 51,626 people are expected to be affected. In Karnali, 13,175 people are projected to be affected.
