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IMD Data on website: Monthly, district wise rainfall data for five years!
ShareGuest Post by: Himanshu Thakkar, SANDRP 
You may recall that following an appeal by SANDRP before the Central Information Commission, CIC had in January 2009 asked India Met Dept to review their policy and put up district wise monthly rainfall data for at least five years on its website. The relevant order of CIC can be seen here: CIC to IMD Review Info Policy and relevant Press Release from SANDRP can be seen at: CIC Directs IMD to Review Information Policy Now, IMD has put up the requested data on its website, see: http://imd.gov.in/section/hydro/distrainfall/districtrain.html IMD tells us that they are still in the process of collecting, collating the data and data of more districts would be uploaded as they are ready. We have also suggested to IMD to also provide annual figures (total of the monthly data) so that people get quick picture about the same. We also notice that links for some of the districts (e.g. Nalgonda in AP) are not working. Let us know if you have other feedback. We would like to thank all those who have also submitted their comments on the India Water Portal, supporting our position, the comments were submitted to IMD and CIC.
Access Post Requesting User's Feedback on IMD data on IWP Blog here: Should IMD give away Meteorological Data for free ?
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I need rain fall data mandal wise month wise for the last 3 years in Andhra Pradesh
Sir,
I want rainfall data from 2002 to 2012 of Dehradun district, Uttarakhand
I wanted average rainfall details for 10 years, for all raingauge stations district wise. But I could not get it. I need suitable suggestion to get the rainfall particulars (10 Years Average) for all raingauge station for all district.
Rainfall data, if available free will be a great boon to the researchers. It will save lot of time and energy spent of reaching the concerned departments, archiving the data and procuring the same. A weekly data will be best used by the researchers.
Similar data is available free of cost in many other countries. Even if the data is available at a cost, it is necessary to ensure that the mode of payments should be easy and the response time of getting the data should be rapid.
Sachin
I would suggest that district data for monthly average rain fall be also put up for from the commencement of the 2009 monsoon. This along with the seasonal average would give a picutre of rainfall each month.
Seasonal averages do not give the full picture of how the rains were spread out which is critical for crops.
if this can be made available on wekly basis, then so much the better for the farmer/govt agencies who can quickly guage how the monsoon is faring on a real time basis and formulate action plans accordingly.
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Jayan