The Director General of Meteorology is the Head of the India Meteorological Department, with headquarters at New Delhi. There are 4 Additional Directors General at New Delhi and 1 at Pune. There are 20 Deputy Directors General of whom 10 are at New Delhi.

For the 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, Calcutta, Nagpur and Guwahati. Under the administrative control of Deputy Director General, there are different types of operational units such as Meteorological Centres at state capitals, Forecasting Offices, Agrometeorological Advisory Service Centres, Flood Meteorological Offices, Area Cyclone Warning Centres and Cyclone Warning Centres.

In addition, there are separate Divisions to deal with specialised subjects like Agricultural Meteorology, Civil Aviation, Climatology, Hydrometeorology, Instrumentation, Meteorological Telecommunication, Regional Specialised Meteorological Centre, Positional Astronomy, Satellite Meteorology, Seismology, etc.

The Council for Meteorology and Atmospheric Sciences (CMAS) under the chairmanship of Secretary, Department of Science and Technology, has the responsibility for formulating the policies and programmes of IMD and for their implementation.