{"id":25179,"date":"2024-07-20T12:42:42","date_gmt":"2024-07-20T07:12:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=25179"},"modified":"2025-04-07T16:03:10","modified_gmt":"2025-04-07T10:33:10","slug":"bhusanket-web-portal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/bhusanket-web-portal\/","title":{"rendered":"Bhusanket Web Portal"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>About Bhusanket Web Portal:\u00a0<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>This web portal will facilitate the <strong>dissemination o<\/strong>f relevant data and information on <strong>landslide hazards, initiating short-range<\/strong> and medium-range landslide <strong>forecasting <\/strong>in the country.<\/li>\n<li>Integrated with the Bhusanket Web Portal, the user-friendly <strong>Bhooskhalan Mobile App<\/strong> will enable quick dissemination of daily landslide forecasts and allow stakeholders to share and update spatial and temporal information on landslide occurrences.<\/li>\n<li>The app is available on Bhusanket web portal and will soon be available on Google Play Store.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Key facts about Geological Survey of India<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It was set up in 1851 primarily to find coal deposits for the Railways.<\/li>\n<li>It is an attached office to the <strong>Ministry of Mines.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Its main functions relate to <strong>creating and updating of national geoscientific information<\/strong> and mineral resource assessment.<\/li>\n<li>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.<\/li>\n<li>GSI also emphasizes on systematic <strong>documentation of<\/strong> all geological <strong>processes both surface and subsurface,<\/strong> of the country and its offshore areas.<\/li>\n<li>It functions as a \u2018Repository\u2019 for the purpose and uses the latest computer-based technologies for dissemination of geoscientific information and spatial data, through cooperation and collaboration with other stakeholders in the Geo-informatics sector.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Headquarter:<\/strong> Kolkata and it has six regional offices located in Lucknow, Jaipur, Nagpur, Hyderabad, Shillong.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1: What is a landslide?<\/h3>\n<p>A landslide is a mass movement of material, such as rock, earth or debris, down a slope. They can happen suddenly or more slowly over long periods of time. When the force of gravity acting on a slope exceeds the resisting forces of a slope, the slope will fail and a landslide occurs.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/pib.gov.in\/PressReleasePage.aspx?PRID=2034442\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Union Minister G Kishan Reddy inaugurates National Landslide Forecasting Centre and Launches Bhusanket Web Portal &amp; Bhooskhalan Mobile App<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bhusanket 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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":25180,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-25179","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25179","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\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25179\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}