A TIRUPATI youth was praised by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday for his efforts to help farmers by providing weather-related information in the local language. During his ‘Mann Ki Baat’ monthly radio programme, the Prime Minister mentioned B. Sai Praneeth, who calls himself the ‘Andhra Pradesh Weatherman’. A software engineer, Sai Praneeth observed that due to inclement weather, farmers of his area had to suffer huge losses.

 

He a had keen interest in meteorology for the past many years and hence he decided to use his passion and his talent for the welfare of farmers, Modi said. “Now he purchases weather data from various sources, analyse them, translate them in local language and disseminates the necessary information to farmers.