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K.J.Ramesh
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Harsh Vardhan
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Madhavan Nair Rajeevan
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S.K.Srivatsav
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Detailed explanation-1: -The IMD is headed by the Director General of Meteorology, currently Dr. Mrutyunjay Mohapatra .
Detailed explanation-2: -India Meteorological Department was established in 1875.
Detailed explanation-3: -The first Director General of Observatories was Sir John Eliot who was appointed in May 1889 at Calcutta headquarters. The headquarters of IMD were later shifted to Shimla, then to Poona (now Pune) and finally to New Delhi.
Detailed explanation-4: -Ans: The meteorological department collects data on temperature, wind, humidity, etc. and prepares various kinds of weather reports; it also makes weather prediction and provides services to aviation sector like fog information. It also provides tsunami and earthquake information.