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UPSC Prelims 2026 GS Paper 1, question 84

Topic: Science and technology

Q84

Which of the following statements with regard to India's indigenous new high resolution weather model, the ‘Bharat Forecast System,’ is/are correct ?

  1. Its objective is to generate forecasts at the Panchayats cluster level.

  2. It was developed by IIT Delhi.

Select the answer using the code given below :

  1. (a) 1 onlyCorrect answer
  2. (b) 2 only
  3. (c) Both 1 and 2
  4. (d) Neither 1 nor 2

Solution.

Answer: (a) 1 only

  1. Statement 1 is correct: the Bharat Forecast System (BFS) is an indigenous ultra-high-resolution (6 km grid) numerical weather prediction model designed to generate localized forecasts down to the Panchayat cluster level.
  2. Statement 2 is incorrect: the Bharat Forecast System was developed by the Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology (IITM), Pune, under the Ministry of Earth Sciences, not by IIT Delhi.