Gyan Prakash

Still reporting rainfall in inches and dam gauges in feet

It is illegal to report the rainfall in inches and dam or river gauges in feet but many newspapers are still reporting the rainfall in inches and dam or river gauges in feet.

Posted on 09 Jul, 2010 12:18 PM

We have adopted the metric system long back (1957) and there was a grace period of 10 years for transition from British units to metric units.

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