The Director General of Meteorology is the Head of India Meteorological Department with its headquarters at New Delhi. There are four Additional Director Generals at New Delhi and one at Pune. There are 20 Deputy Director General of whom ten are at New Delhi. For convenience of Administrative and Technical control there are 6 Regional Meteorological centres each under a Deputy Director General with headquarters at Mumbai, Chennai, New Delhi, Kolkota, Guwahati and Nagpur. Under the administrative control of Deputy Director General there are different types of operational units such as Meteorological Centres at each State capital. Meteorological Centre, Panaji, Goa is under Regional Meteorological Centre, Mumbai.

This station is equipped with  the following units/ Sections:

• RS/RW  RS/RW  upgraded by G.P. Sonde.
 
• Surface  With 08 surface observations round the clock.  DIWE  and  AWS is also installed.
                       
• Radiation  with manual and  Automatic Radiation Station (ARS).

• Seismic  RTSMN is installed in the unit which records real time Seismic  data. The  data is automatically transmitted to H.Q. through satellite.
   
• DWR  Earlier CDR, has been dehaulaged in  December     2008 due proposed installation of DWR  at MC Goa in the Ist Phase of Modernization of IMD. The construction/ modification work of existing bldg is in progress.

• PMO  Surface observatory at Mormugao records only  03, 06, 09,12 Z surface observations daily.  All autographic surface instruments including Dynes PT Anemograph are also installed there.

• PMLO  IVOF and other Ships including foreign ships are visited for calibration of Barometer and other met instruments.

• CWDS  Digital CWDS will be installed shortly in the campus of "Data Centre of Water Resource 

  Dept Porvorim Goa .  

• Out post Rainguage stations  Mapusa, Pernem, Valpoi, Ponda, Margao,Canacona, Qupem and Sanguem.

• AWS   Automatic Weather Stations  are installed at Panaji ; Ela (Old Goa) and Mormugao.

• ARG  Automatic Rainguage Stations  are installed at Mapusa, Old Goa (ICAR), Pernem & Valpoi in North Goa  and Canacona in South Goa

• Communication  High Speed Data Terminal (HSDT) VPN Circuit   with speed of 256 Kbps for transmission and reception of  Meteorological  data is installed.

• IVRS  An Inter Voice Responsive System is installed in the office with Toll free No. 1800-180-1717 for day today weather enquiry