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Odisha’s Mrutyunjay Mohapatra Elected As 3rd Vice-President Of WMO

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OB Bureau

Bhubaneswar: Mrutyunjay Mohapatra, Director General of India Meteorological Department (IMD), has been elected as third vice-president of the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO).

The WMO in a tweet on Thursday said, “Mrutyunjay Mohapatra, director of @Indiametdept  has been elected Third Vice-President of WMO at #MeteoWorld. We congratulate all the new office holders.”

Mohapatra won 113 votes out of the total 148 votes cast in the election to the post. Besides Mohapatra, Eoin Moran, Director of Met Éireann from Ireland and Daouda Konate, Director of meteorology of Cote d’Ivoire were also elected to the position of Vice-President of the WMO which is the United Nation’s authoritative voice on weather, climate, and water.

Mohapatra, who belongs to Odisha, has been heading the top weather office of the country since 2019.

OB Bureau

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