PARLIAMENT QUESTION: FORECAST SYSTEM

• BharatFS is India's indigenously developed high-resolution Numerical Weather Prediction (NWP) model operating at ~6 km horizontal resolution, the world's highest for an operational global model.
• Developed by IITM-Pune under Ministry of Earth Sciences (MoES), supported by NCMRWF-Noida and IMD.
• Significant for UPSC: intersects GS-III (S&T, Disaster Management), agriculture, and India's push for indigenous scientific capability ("Atmanirbhar Bharat" in weather modelling).