{"id":131377,"date":"2026-10-31T13:35:32","date_gmt":"2026-10-31T08:05:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=131377"},"modified":"2026-10-31T13:39:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-31T08:09:10","slug":"punah-bharan-mobile-application","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/punah-bharan-mobile-application\/","title":{"rendered":"Punah Bharan App Launched to Identify Groundwater Recharge Zones Within 3 Km"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>Punah Bharan Mobile Application Latest News<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Recently, the Union Minister of Jal Shakti has launched the Punah Bharan Mobile Application.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About Punah Bharan Mobile Application<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is developed for advancing <\/span><b>scientific groundwater recharge planning<\/b> <b>through geospatial technology.<\/b><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is developed by the <\/span><b>Bhaskaracharya National Institute for Space Applications and Geo-informatics (BISAG-N) <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">in collaboration with the <\/span><b><a href=\"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/water-mission\/\" target=\"_blank\">National Water Mission (NWM)<\/a>.<\/b><\/li>\n<li><b>Features<\/b>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It enables users to identify <\/span><b>potential artificial recharge zones<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> within a <\/span><b>radial distance of up to 3 km<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and explore suitable recharge structures based on local conditions.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It provides access to <\/span><b>village-level Artificial Recharge Structure<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (ARS) zonation maps, GIS tools and thematic layers, supporting informed planning for sustainable groundwater management.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The platform <\/span><b>utilises geospatial datasets<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, including rainfall, groundwater levels, groundwater yield, slope and drainage, to help identify potential recharge areas and plan appropriate interventions.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><b>What is Bhaskaracharya National Institute for Space Applications and Geo-informatics?<\/b><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is an <\/span><b>autonomous scientific society<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> registered under <\/span><b>the Societies Registration Act, 1860<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, under the <\/span><b>Ministry of Electronics &amp; Information Technology<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (MeitY), Government of India.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Objective:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> To undertake technology development &amp; management, research &amp; development, facilitate national and international cooperation, capacity building, and support technology transfer &amp; entrepreneurship development in the area of geospatial technology.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>BISAG-N has three main domain areas:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> satellite communication, geo-informatics and geo-spatial technology.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">BISAG-N provides specialized services and solutions in implementing <\/span><b>map-based Geographic Information Systems (GIS).<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Location:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Gandhinagar, Gujarat<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Source: <\/b><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pib.gov.in\/PressReleasePage.aspx?PRID=2329354&amp;reg=48&amp;lang=2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">PIB<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Union Minister of Jal Shakti has launched the Punah Bharan Mobile Application to strengthen groundwater recharge planning across India. Developed by BISAG-N in collaboration with the National Water Mission, the app uses GIS-based mapping to identify potential artificial recharge zones within a 3 km radius. It combines rainfall, groundwater levels, slope and drainage data to help users select suitable recharge structures and support sustainable water management.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":131346,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[11253],"class_list":["post-131377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","tag-punah-bharan-mobile-application","no-featured-image-padding"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131377","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131377"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131377\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":131424,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131377\/revisions\/131424"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/131346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}