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- India Meteorological Department (IMD) will complete 150 years on 15 January 2025.
- In 1875, provincial British government established the organisation.
- Henry Francis Blanford was its first (Imperial) Meteorological Reporter.
- 1864 Calcutta cyclone and the Orissa famine that occurred just two years later accelerated its formation.
- The organisation was initially headquartered in Calcutta. It had moved to New Delhi by 1944.
- IMD became a member of the World Meteorological Organisation in 1949.
- At present, IMD operates six Regional Meteorological Centres and a Meteorological Centre in every State capital.
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