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Informist, Tuesday, Sept. 16, 2025

 

By J. Navya Sruthi and Shreya Shetty

 

MUMBAI - The Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology, Pune, is likely to launch an artificial intelligence-based platform, 'MausamGPT', by the end of 2025, Director of the institute A. Suryachandra Rao told Informist. This platform will help farmers

to decide on cropping cycles and crops to be sown with respect to the pattern and intensity of rainfall during monsoon. 

 

"...As weather and climate forecasts are very important for each and every sector, the government and IITM (Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology) are coming up with the 'MausamGPT', similar to 'ChatGPT'," Rao said. He added that it will take at least two to three years to develop the application completely, "but the first version, we are trying to launch very soon," he said, adding, "It will happen this year at least. That is what we are targeting."

 

Rao said the application will be developed in stages. "Slowly we will keep adding each sector one by one to that, by working with other ministries too," he added. 

 

'MausamGPT' will be similar to an AI model and the institute will launch a website, application, and a dial-in service. "It mostly uses traditional dynamic models and ML (machine learning) models. And to convert all this information, we also use large language models," the director said.

 

The dial-in service will help those who do not have access to a smartphone and can just dial the number and get answers to their queries, Rao said. The main aim of the platform will be to advise the end-user about the type of crop to be sown along with the seed variety with respect to the weather conditions. 

 

This move by the institution comes at a time when India's agricultural sector faces the challenge of an evolving global warming scenario which is impacting the monsoon. The rise in global warming is increasing the number of extreme events during monsoon. This means more instances of extremely heavy rainfall and fewer drizzles, or light to moderate showers, he said.

This is leading to more urban floods, Rao said, adding that the amount of rainfall during the monsoon is not changing as there are either instances of extreme rainfall or nothing. "So, as a whole, if you look at it, in the season everything looks normal. These things will increase and mitigating them and managing them is the challenge."

 

"The institution is already concentrating in urban areas under 'Mission Mausam', especially on flooding in major cities and management of such events," Roa said. "...we are always gearing ourselves up to address them very efficiently and scientifically."

 

Prime Minister Narendra Modi had in January launched Mission Mausam, which will improve localised weather forecasts, weather observation infrastructure for hilly terrain, and integrate weather data into disaster management plans. In September, the Minister of State for Science and Technology Jitendra Singh had said the India Meteorological Department will install four additional radars under Mission Mausam in Jammu and Kashmir for more accurate district-wise weather forecasts and early warnings.  End

 

Edited by Vandana Hingorani

 

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