India Meteorological Department

India Meteorological Department

Agency overview
Formed	15 January 1875 (15 January 1875)
Type	Government agency
Jurisdiction	Government of India
Headquarters	Mausam Bhavan, Lodhi Road, New Delhi
Annual budget	₹514.03 crore (US$62 million) (2022)[1]
Ministers responsible	Kiren Rijiju, Union Minister of Earth Sciences M Ravichandran, Secretary, Ministry of Earth Sciences
Agency executive	Mrutyunjay Mohapatra, Director General of Meteorology
Parent department	Ministry of Earth Sciences
Website	mausam.imd.gov.in

The India Meteorological Department (IMD) is an agency of the Ministry of Earth Sciences of the Government of India. It is the principal agency responsible for meteorological observations, weather forecasting and seismology. IMD is headquartered in Delhi and operates hundreds of observation stations across India and Antarctica. Regional offices are at Chennai, Mumbai, Kolkata, Nagpur, Guwahati and New Delhi.

IMD is also one of the six Regional Specialised Meteorological Centres of the World Meteorological Organisation. It has the responsibility for forecasting, naming and distribution of warnings for tropical cyclones in the Northern Indian Ocean region, including the Malacca Straits, the Bay of Bengal, the Arabian Sea and the Persian Gulf.