Western Railway auto rain gauges to prevent flooding

Having learnt a lesson from the last monsoon when Mumbai was cut-off from Gujarat and Delhi for three days due to excessive flooding on the water tracks, the Western Railway (WR) is investing on automatic rain gauge machines (ARGs) this year for better rain prediction. The WR authorities are installing 10 more rain gauge machines built by their engineers, apart from the six ARGs that is being fixed at stations with help of Indian Metrological Department (IMD).

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