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Fig. 6: Cyclone warning organisation of IMD.
coordination as well as liaison with the Central Government and other
organisations is done by the CWD, New Delhi, which also functions at Regional
Specialised Meteorological Centre (RSMC)-TC and provides the Tropical
Weather Outlooks and TC Advisories for the benefit of the countries in the
world meteorological organization (WMO)/Economic and Social Cooperation
for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) Panel region bordering the Bay of Bengal
and the Arabian Sea, namely, Bangladesh, Maldives, Myanmar, Oman, Pakistan,
Sri Lanka and Thailand. At national level, cyclone warning is furnished on a
real time basis to the Control Room in the Ministry of Home Affairs,
Government of India, besides other ministries and departments of the central
government. This Division provides cyclone warning bulletins to Doordarshan
and All India Radio (AIR) at New Delhi for inclusion in the national broadcast/
telecast. Bulletins are also provided to other electronic and print media and
concerned state governments.
There are Cyclone Warning Centres (CWCs) at Visakhapatnam,
Ahmedabad and Bhubaneswar that provide cyclone warnings in respect of the
coastal regions of the maritime states in which they are located. In addition,
there are Area Cyclone Warning Centres (ACWCs) at Kolkata, Chennai and
Mumbai that not only provide the cyclone warnings to their respective maritime
states but also supervise the warning work of the CWCs under their jurisdiction.