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Union Minister of Coal and Mines launched the Bhusanket Web Portal and Bhooskhalan Mobile App.

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.

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
- 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.

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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