Chennai, Nov 21 (PTI) Tamil Nadu government and the United Kingdom government on Friday jointly launched a “Heat Resilience Centre” for the state, aimed at strengthening the capacity to address rising extreme heat conditions.

A Letter of Intent (LoI) was signed between Additional Chief Secretary, Environment, Climate Change and Forests Department, Supriya Sahu and Seema Malhotra MP, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Government of the United Kingdom, according to a statement.

The Heat Resilience Centre would serve as Tamil Nadu’s nodal institution to coordinate heat-risk management across sectors. Show Full Article

It would establish a scientific and institutional governance framework, build technical capacity across departments, including health and urban development, among others

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