Silchar June 4: South Assam’s first weather surveillance and monitoring station to gauge weather behaviour 24 x 7 will be set up on the sprawling campus of S.S. College in Hailakandi town.

There are 13 such stations spread across different districts of the state.

This station will be established by the Union government’s department of science and technology in collaboration with Assam Science, Technology and Environment Council (ASTEC), an NGO.

The branch secretary of the council in Hailakandi district, Rupak Sen, today said that the Centre had granted Rs 7 lakh. Sources in the council said no separate building would be required for the station as all instruments, including an antenna, would be kept on SS College campus fully exposed to nature.

Sen, an associate professor of physics with the college, said this station would be supervised by a panel of members of the council’s Hailakandi branch under his aegis.

In Hailakandi, council sources said this multi-facility weather station would not only gauge rainfall, but provide data feedback on pressure and direction of wind besides direction of rain, humidity and maximum day temperature and minimum temperature at night.

The station will also forecast possibility of rain on a day-to-day basis.

Sen said every half-an-hour the station would feed the Isro with data on weather to help it analyse the weather pattern of Hailakandi.

He said the instrument in this station would neutralise lightning within its 5km radius.