They will also monitor rain and humidity. Meteorological department has sought space from Ahmedabad Municipal Cooperation to install these equipment.
The Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) and meteorological department, Ahmedabad has taken a small step in its battle against heat wave effects.
Following a meeting with Indian Institute of Public Health, Gandhinagar and Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) the AMC had signed an MoU to work out precautionary measures after studying the effects of severe heat in the city.
As part of the same, the civic body has decided to install equipment to monitor rain, humidity and temperature at six places in the city. The equipment will be installed within four to five months.
"The decision was taken after a meeting with the AMC and met department officials on Tuesday," said chief medical officer Dr SP Kulkarni.
If everything goes as per plan, citizens will soon get data of rainfall in each zone in the city.
"The met department has sought space at five to six places in the city to install the machine to register rain, humidity and temperature. They require 7X5 ft space to install the equipment. Once these equipment are installed, data of temperature, humidity and rain will be available for all six city zones," said Dr Kulkarni.
Director of met department in Ahmedabad, Dr Kamaljit Ray could not be contacted for her comments. However, Dr Kulkarni said that they will prepare a plan and identify locations to install equipment and present it before the standing committee in AMC within a short time.
"The procedure will take a couple of months," he said.
As per the MoU signed between the three agencies, the motive is to prepare a plan to study impact of climate change, especially heat wave conditions.
Currently, temperature measuring equipment is installed only at A'bad airport. Installing these machines will show the difference in temperature in different pockets of the city.
Earlier talking about the plan, IIP-G dean, Dr Dileep Mavalankar had said that they would also study the impact of climate change to know what kind of facilities should be provided to save people from its worst impact.
Once the temperature difference is measured, the proposal was to divide the city in different colour zones to warn people about temperature level in the area.
For example, areas with temperatures under 37 degree Celsius could have a green board and temperature of around 40 degree Celsius could be indicated by orange colour. Those with more than 42 degree Celsius will be marked out by a red-coloured board.
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