Centre to make it mandatory for domestic airlines to share weather data with IMD, call it 'similar to exit polls'

M Ravichandran, secretary of the Union Ministry of Earth Sciences, told PTI that his ministry had been in discussions with the civil aviation ministry on the matter, and providing weather data would be "made mandatory for domestic airlines within a year".
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