IMD Director General Mrutyunjay Mohapatra elected as vice-president of World Meteorological Organisation

IMD Director General Mrutyunjay Mohapatra elected as vice-president of World Meteorological Organisation

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Category : Appointment/Resignation Published on: June 06 2023

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  • The Director General of the India Meteorological Department (IMD), Mrutyunjay Mohapatra was elected as one of the three vice-presidents of the World Meteorological Organisation.
  • Along with Mohapatra, the UN agency for climate change, weather and water elected two other vice-presidents as well.
  • The WMO appoints one President and three vice-presidents, who preside over the Executive Council and the World Meteorological Congress.
  • Director of meteorology of Cote d'Ivoire, Daouda Konate was elected as the first vice-president and Eoin Moran, director of Met Éireann, was elected the second vice-president.
  • Abdulla Al Mandous, the director of United Arab Emirates National Center of Meteorology, was elected President of WMO for a four-year term at the WMO elections held in Geneva.
  • Mohapatra hails from Odisha and is often referred to as the ‘cyclone man of India’. He has been heading the IMD since 2019.
  • Earlier, India’s Earth Sciences Secretary M Ravichandran was also elected as the vice-chair of the Antarctic Treaty Consultative Mechanism (ATCM), an annual decision making mechanism that establishes limitations on commercial sealing and provides a mechanism to deal with it in Antarctica.
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