India, May 5 -- The Pimpri Chinchwad Municipal Corporation (PCMC) on Friday launched Rainfall and Flood Forecasting - Early Warning System in collaboration with the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC).

The initiative is aimed at equipping the city with science-based decision-making tools to anticipate and effectively respond to weather-related hazards such as heavy rainfall, urban floods, heatwaves, and air pollution, said officials.

The system has been developed by C-DAC under the Government of India's National Supercomputing Mission (NSM), jointly implemented by the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) and the Department of Science and Technology (DST).

As part of the initiative, PCMC signed a M...