India, June 13 -- The Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) on Wednesday announced that they have started sharing daily forecasts and heatwave alerts - simplified and translated into local languages - with informal worker associations through Whatsapp groups. These will then be displayed on signboards across the city in order to make them more inclusive and accessible. This was announced in a workshop held by IMD in collaboration with Greenpeace India and various informal worker organisations.

In a press release, IMD stated that they aim to enable informal workers such as street vendors, gig workers, and daily wage labourers to act as frontline communicators of weather alerts, in order to develop an early warning system at the grassroot...