Regional Telecommunication Hub, New Delhi

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Under the Global Telecommunication System organised as part of the World Weather Watch Plan by W.M.O.  New Delhi is functioning as a Regional Telecommunication Hub (RTH) on the Main Telecommunication Network (MTN) connecting the two World Meteorological Centres, Moscow directly and Washington viz Tokyo. The automated centre of RTH, New Delhi is thus the Principal Meteorological Telecommunication Centres in South Asia and its zone of responsibility extends roughly from Saudi Arabia in the west to Thailand in the East and the adjoining sea areas.  It collects data from this areas and feeds on to the Global Telecommunication System for Global and Regional Exchange.  Other meteorological services in the Middle East and South East Asia also depends for their data requirements on RTH, New Delhi. 

Accordingly, it maintains Telecommunication Circuits with Moscow, Tokyo, Cairo, Jeddah, Bangkok, Colombo, Dhaka, Tehran, Karachi, Male, Yangon and Kathmandu. The circuit with Moscow and Beijing operates on 128 kbps speed , Dhaka, Pakistan, Jeddah, Cairo operates on 64 kbps, Melbourne, Male, Srilanka, Yangoon operates through Internet.