Hyderabad, June 28 -- The Hyderabad Disaster Response and Assets Protection Agency (HYDRAA), along with the various state and central government departments, will be forming a working group to achieve accuracy in predicting rains and disseminating that information to the people, so that traffic problem during the rains could be assuaged to an extent.

On Saturday, June 28, HYDRAA commissioner AV Ranganath, along with an inter-departmental team of experts held a meeting on the topic "weather prediction in urban areas and monitoring."

Addressing the gathering, Ranganath said that the working group will not only predict the rains accurately, but would also prepare the administrative machinery to respond to the exigencies that could arise as...