Bhuvan Panchayat 3.0

WHY IN  NEWS?

The Bhuvan Panchayat V 3.0 web portal was recently launched.

ABOUT BHUVAN PANCHAYAT 3.0

• Bhuvan Panchayat is part of ISRO’s Space-based Information Support for Decentralised Planning Update project.
• Bhuvan is a satellite application that is powered by ISRO. It allows users to explore 2D and 3D representation of the earth.
• It’s aimed at better planning and monitoring of government projects.
• This version of the portal will provide database visualisation and services for the benefit of panchayat members, among others.
• The targeted audiences for this portal are Public, PRIs and different stakeholders belonging to the gram panchayats.
• Using Bhuvan satellite imagery, hi-resolution database at 1:10,000 scale is applied to identify land use land cover, settlements, road and rail network etc. The portal offers database visualization, data analytics, generation of automatic reports, model-based products and services for Gram Panchayat members and other stake-holders.

Prellms Question

Q. Bhuvan Panchayat 3.0 which was recently in news was launched by?
a)Ministry of Panchayati Raj
b)Central Statistics Office
c)C-DAC
d)ISRO

Answer to the Prelims Question