March 26, 2026
Bhuvan Geo Tags Raise Questions: How Much Do They Really Track?
Bhuvan Geo Tags the location-tagging feature embedded within ISRO’s Bhuvan portal and its associated mobile applications have quietly become a ubiquitous data collection layer across dozens of Indian government programmes, from MGNREGS asset creation to PM Awas Yojana beneficiary verification, making them one of the largest operational geospatial citizen data systems in the country. Reports suggest over 20 crore geo-tagged entries now exist in the Bhuvan database, compiled from government field workers, gram rozgar sevaks, urban local body officials and scheme beneficiaries who capture location-stamped photographs as proof of work or residency. The scale of this data collection has prompted
















