India’s indigenous high resolution Bharat Forecast System — UPSC Prelims PYQ 2026

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

Its objective is to generate forecasts at the Panchayat cluster level.
It was developed by IIT Delhi.

Select the answer using the code given below:

1 only
2 only
Both 1 and 2
Neither 1 nor 2

Explanation

Statement 1 is correct

The Bharat Forecast System was developed to generate forecasts at the cluster-of-panchayats level, enabling hyper-local weather predictions at 6 km resolution.

Statement 2 is incorrect

It was developed by the Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology (IITM), Pune, not IIT Delhi.

Infographic explaining the Bharat Forecasting System (BFS), India’s indigenous high-resolution weather forecasting model that combines numerical weather prediction, AI, and Doppler radar data for improved tropical weather forecasts.