"A deal was signed last week between Skymet and Maharashtra, appointing us as a consultant to set up more than 2,000 automatic weather stations across the state using the public-private partnership (PPP) route," Skymet head of instrumentation Yogesh Patil told PTI here on the sidelines of a meet organised by the company.u00a0

In 2011, Omnivore Capital, whose anchor investor is Godrej Agrovet, had picked up 33 per cent stake in Skymet for around Rs 10 crore. The remaining stake in Skymet is owned by a former Aaj Tak journalist Jatin Singh, who is its founder, as well as his father B K Singh, who used to be a vendor-contractor to the Pune-based Indian Meteorological Department.