Commemorating A Year of Progress in Landslide Forecasting and Disaster Mitigation
Kolkata, 18th July 2025: The Geological Survey of India (GSI) is all set to celebrate the 1st Anniversary of the National Landslide Forecasting Centre (NLFC) on 18th July 2025, at Dharitri Building, Salt Lake, Sector-V, Kolkata. The event will be inaugurated by *Shri Asit Saha, DG, GSI* in the gracious presence of *Ms. Priyanka Singla, IAS, Special Secretary, WBSDMA*, along with stakeholders and other senior officers of GSI.
Over the past year, GSI have made significant strides in advancing India’s Landslide Early Warning System (LEWS), expanded its operational footprint through issuing landslide forecast bulletins daily for 21 districts (18 experimental and three operational) across eight landslide-prone states, while enhancing forecasting and hazard mitigation by adopting global best practices. To commemorate this milestone, a workshop has been organised by GSI on hybrid platform, bringing together experts, and stakeholders from State Governments, National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA), India Meteorological Department (IMD), National Remote Sensing Centre- ISRO, and disaster management professionals from Central organisations, IITs/ Universities, to discuss the progress, technological innovations, and future roadmap in the field of landslide early warning and risk reduction.
GSI remains committed to strengthening early warning capabilities through science and innovation. The celebration reflects a year of progress and underscores the promise of safer, more resilient communities ahead.
*About Geological Survey of India*
The Geological Survey of India (GSI) was set up in 1851 primarily to find coal deposits for the Railways. Over the years, GSI has not only grown into a repository of geo-science information required in various fields in the country but has also attained the status of a geo-scientific organisation of international repute. Its main functions relate to creating and updating of national geo-scientific information and mineral resource assessment. These objectives are achieved through ground surveys, air-borne and marine surveys, mineral prospecting and investigations, multi-disciplinary geo-scientific, 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 geo-scientific information of all kinds, with a focus on policy making decisions, commercial and socio-economic needs. GSI also emphasizes on systematic documentation of all geological processes both surface and subsurface, of India 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’s core competence in survey and mapping is continuously enhanced through accretion, management, coordination and utilization of spatial databases (including those acquired through remote sensing). It functions as a ‘Repository’ for the purpose and uses the latest computer-based technologies for dissemination of geo-scientific information and spatial data, through cooperation and collaboration with other stakeholders in the Geo-informatics sector.
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.
