The document discusses weather and climate in India. It defines weather and climate, noting that climate is average weather conditions over a long period. Precipitation, temperature, humidity and other factors are important elements. Weather and climate are governed by geographical factors and affect natural resources, ecosystems, and human life. Climate change due to increased greenhouse gases is a major global challenge. India's climate zones are facing problems from weather anomalies, including changes in monsoon patterns.

2. A NATIONAL PROGRAMME FOR
THE CHILDREN OF INDIA

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6.  Weather is the instantaneous state of the atmosphere, or sequence of states of the atmosphere with time, which can be defined
as the condition of the atmosphere at any given time and place. Climate, on the other hand, is the average as well as variability
of weather conditions prevailing in an area over a long period of time, known also as the Statistics of Weather. Precipitation,
temperature, humidity, atmospheric pressure, and wind are the important elements of weather and climate. It is the result of
the interaction of four basic physical elements- the Sun, the Earth's atmosphere, the Earth itself, and natural landforms on the
Earth's surface. Weather and climate of a particular location are also governed by natural factors like geographical position (in
terms of latitude, longitude and altitude), distribution of land and water, distance from water bodies, surface cover etc.
 Weather and climate are the vital factors determining the nature, condition and pattern of natural resources (e.g. water, soil,
flora, and fauna). Collective expressions of the state of temperature, humidity and precipitation within a year in different
seasons as well as in long term basis determine the forms of water, soil-forming processes and create support systems for the
floral growth, which in turn regulates faunal composition of a locality. These natural resource bases along with weather and
climate determine the way of life of human being. Thus, the economic framework and cultural composition of a locality is also
dependent on the weather and climate and hence, any significant change in these two key factors has a profound impact not
only on natural resources but also on the entire biosphere.
 Increased level of atmospheric carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases have been identified as the key factor of global
climate change, the most important global environmental challenge being faced by humanity today. As per IPCC Reports, 2013,
on an average, temperature has increased by roughly from 1880 to 2012.
 India’s weather and climate are mainly governed by her geographical location, surrounding boundary conditions (the
Himalayas, the Indian Ocean, Arabian Sea and Bay of Bengal). Further, the variations in land and water distribution within the
country, altitudinal differences, vegetation type and cover along with the variations of sunshine hours within the country due to
its latitudinal and longitudinal extension are clubbed together to divide the country into six climatic zones and twelve agro-
climatic zones differing from each other quite significantly. But these climatic and agro-climatic zones are facing serious
problems of various kinds due to the impact of climatic/ weather anomalies. For more than one decade weather and climatic
anomalies are taking place in all the agro-climatic regions of the country. Moreover, one major element of climatic control in
the country, the Indian Monsoon, was found to be altering in terms of its onset, amount and distribution of rainfall across the
country, which clearly indicates probable impacts on the country’s economy.
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7. We are assuming while making this project that this
Project will help us to explore peoples practices in
winter , summer and rainy seasons. And on the other
hand it will help us to know what other peoples do in
the same climatic conditions.
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8.  What Types of diets are you having now a day?
 Do you have any other type of specific diet in summer?
 And what about in winters ! Which type of diet do you take in
winters?
 Has anybody , In your home have ever got any serious illness or
diseases?
 What types of protections do you perform or provide to the stored
crops from getting it harmed and do you perform any other practices
to provide safety to stored crop from the pest like Mice?
 How was your health last year in summer?
 Do you have some different type of utensils to use in winters and
summers for cooking?
 Do you celebrate any type of festival related to crop ?
 Is there any community which has been made for those disasters
which cause harm to the crops and which are not able to use again?
 Which type of pest is mostly active now a day?
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9.  Simple food.
 Well , yes in Summer I
avoid solid Food.
 Geneually non-veg.
 Yes, last year my father
sufferd from Dengu
 Don’t think about it.
 Fine
 Well no
 Yes, but with my
friends.
 No , I have never heard
about it.
 Mice.

10.  Regular diet.
 Yes , I will take more and
more liquid products.
 Hot Food and dryfruits .
 No
 We store the crops in
airtight containers.
 I am not well in last
summer.
 Yes, I have heard about
it.
 No
 Never heard about it.
 Cockroaches

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13. So from the results we have observed that, out of 15
only 5 dump their garbage and 4 burns them and 3
reuse them, but still there are some with
extraordinary things, there’s a lady who made
decorative things with garbage.
When we come to the number of plastic used per
month, we observed that from 15 surveyed people, 3
are shopkeepers and had their own food centre (like
restaurant, or fast food centre), since they have to use
poly’s to make it easier for the customer to handle
and carry those products (whatever they are buying)
but still from 15 peoples, we have 1 person who don’t
use any of the plastic but only use cloth bags