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Overview
- News in Brief
- National Landslide Forecasting Centre
- Bhusanket Web Portal and Bhooskhalan Mobile App
- About the Geological Survey of India
Why in the News?
Union Minister of Coal and Mines launched the Bhusanket Web Portal and Bhooskhalan Mobile App.
News in Brief
- Also inaugurated the National Landslide Forecasting Centre.
- Landmark achievements for GSI and a testament to its commitment to advancing disaster preparedness and safety in India.
- The event underscores GSI’s ongoing efforts to leverage technology and innovation for the nation’s sustainable development, resource management, and disaster mitigation.
National Landslide Forecasting Centre
- NLFC is a pioneering initiative aimed at landslide hazard mitigation in India. Soon after this inauguration, residents of Kalimpong, Darjeeling and Nilgiri districts will benefit from a live forecasting report to be shared with them from 20th July 2024.
- It will in due course issue early warning bulletins for all landslide-prone states, operationalizing the regional Landslide Early Warning System (LEWS) nationwide by 2030.
- Equipped with advanced technology, the NLFC will provide early information to local administration and communities, update landslide inventories, and integrate real-time rainfall and slope instability data for enhanced forecasting accuracy.
Bhusanket Web Portal and Bhooskhalan Mobile App
- Bhusanket Web Portal
- Marks a major step towards disaster risk reduction.
- This web portal will facilitate the dissemination of relevant data and information on landslide hazards, initiating short-range and medium-range landslide forecasting in the country.
- Bhooskhalan Mobile App
- Integrated with the Bhusanket Web Portal, the user-friendly Bhooskhalan Mobile App will enable quick dissemination of daily landslide forecasts.
- Also allow stakeholders to share and update spatial and temporal information on landslide occurrences.
- The app is available on Bhusanket web portal and will soon be available on Google Play Store.
About the Geological Survey of India
- The Geological Survey of India (GSI) was set up in 1851 primarily to find coal deposits for the Railways.
- Its main functions relate to creating and updating of national geoscientific information and mineral resource assessment.
- These objectives are achieved through
- Ground surveys
- Air-borne and marine surveys
- Mineral prospecting and investigations
- Multi-disciplinary geoscientific
- Geo-technical, geo-environmental and natural hazards studies
- Glaciology
- Seismo-tectonic study and carrying out fundamental research.
- GSI’s chief role includes providing objective, impartial and up-to-date geological expertise and geoscientific information of all kinds, with a focus on policy making decisions, commercial and socio-economic needs.
- GSI also emphasizes systematic documentation of all geological processes both surface and subsurface, of the country and its offshore areas.
- The organization carries out this work through geological, geophysical, & geochemical surveys using the latest does so by using the latest and most cost-effective techniques and methodologies.
- GSI, headquartered in Kolkata, has six regional offices located in Lucknow, Jaipur, Nagpur, Hyderabad, Shillong and Kolkata and state unit offices in almost all states of the country.
- GSI is an attached office to the Ministry of Mines.
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