• National Capital Region (NCR) is presently spread over 55,083 Sq. Kms and has four participating states (24 Districts and entire NCT of Delhi) as its constituent area.
• For the purpose of effective utilization of Remote Sensing and GIS technology, a web geo-portal has been developed through National Informatics Centre (NIC), initially for use by NCR Participating states and the Office of NCRPB.
• Geo-Portal for NCR known as ‘PARIMAN’ was launched on 31.08.2021.
• This Geo-Portal will help to improve decentralized planning and management in NCR region. The Portal consists of around 179 Layers presented as Line, Point & Polygon feature covering details of various sectors like Land Use, Transport, Industries, Water, Power, Health, Shelter, Heritage & Tourism, Disaster Management, etc.

1. Headquartered in Delhi, IMD is an agency under Ministry of Earth Sciences of the Government of India that operates hundreds of observation stations across India and Antarctica.
2. It is the principal agency responsible for metrological observation, weather forecasting and seismology.
3. For more accurate weather forecast, recently IMD has commissioned 4 new doppler radars in Leh, Delhi, Mumbai & Chennai 

• The India Meteorological Department (IMD) is an agency of the Ministry of Earth Sciences of the Government of India. It is the principal agency responsible for metrological observation, weather forecasting and seismology.
• IMD is headquartered in Delhi and operates hundreds of observation stations across India and Antarctica.
• Regional offices are at Chennai, Mumbai, Kolkata, Nagpur, Guwahati and New Delhi.
• IMD is also one of the six Regional Specialised Meteorological Centres of the World Meteorological Organisation.
• It has the responsibility for forecasting, naming and distribution of warnings for tropical cyclones in the Northern Indian Ocean region, including the Malacca Straits, the Bay of Bengal, the Arabian Sea and the Persian Gulf.

• THE INDIA Meteorological Department (IMD) commissioned four doppler weather radars, including an X-band radar in Leh that is installed at the highest altitude anywhere in the country. 
• Delhi got its third doppler radar in the form of an X-band radar at Ayanagar. It has a radius of 100km around the NCR.
• Presently, radars are also operational at Palam and Mausam Bhavan.
• Mumbai got its second radar, a C-band radar at Veravalli, that covers a radius of 450-km around the city.
• Similarly, the Met department operationalised an X-band radar covering a 150-km radius around Chennai, the third radar for the southern city.

Consider the following statements w.r.t. Geographic Information System (GIS) Energy Map of India

1.      NITI Aayog in collaboration with Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has developed a comprehensive GIS Energy Map of India with the support of Energy Ministries of Government of India.

2.      The map attempts to identify and locate all primary and secondary sources of energy and their transportation/transmission networks to provide a comprehensive view of energy production and distribution in a country.

3.      The Geospatial Energy Map of India will be useful in planning and making investment decisions.

4.      It will also aid in disaster management using available energy assets.

Which of the above statements are correct?

1. Climate Resilience Information System and Planning (CRISP-M) tool for MGNREG Scheme is being used as a mechanism to deliver climate resilience in various projects.
2. The implementation of CRISP-M will open up new possibilities for Rural communities to deal with climate change.
3. The project for Climate Resilient program CRISP-M tool for integration of climate information in Geographic Information System (GIS) based watershed planning has been launched at the national level.