CSEIT1831343 | Received : 11 Feb 2018 | Accepted : 20 Feb 2018 | January-February-2018 [(3) 1 : 1361-1370 ] International Journal of Scientific Research in Computer Science, Engineering and Information Technology © 2018 IJSRCSEIT | Volume 3 | Issue 1 | ISSN : 2456-3307 1361 - Delineation of Ground Water Prospect Zone in hard rock terrine part of Purulia District of West Bengal-India using Remote Sensing & GIS Approach Surajit Bera Department of NREM, CSIR-Central Institute of Mining & Fuel Research, Barwa Road, Dhanbad, Jharkhand, India ABSTRACT In the field of ground water resource uses of Remote Sensing and Geographic Information System (GIS) assume a crucial part in ground water investigation. Using Remote Sensing data (satellite image) and the Geographic Information System we can undoubtedly get to, observing, preserving and economically dealing with the ground water resource. In this work utilizing Remote Sensing and GIS system, different ground water prospect zones depicted of ground water accessibility in Purulia district. Different thematic layers viz. Topography, soil, hydro geomorphology, land use, slope, drainage density, lineament density and water level depth were prepared utilizing Survey of India (SOI) Toposheets, satellite image (IRS-1C, LISS-III and Cartosat-1, DEM), National Bureau of Soil Survey (NBSS), and Geological Survey of India (GSI) maps in GIS environment. The multi influence factor (MIF) technique used to process a weighted score of each raster class. Additionally, each weighted thematic layer statistically compute to get the ground water prospect zones utilizing the weighted overlay analysis tool in Arc GIS software. Five classes (Restricted, Not Suitable, Suitable, Moderate and Highly Suitable) of ground water prospect zones found in the study area, the restricted zone covers 1412.35 sq km around 22.57 %, not suitable zone covers 151.75 sq km around 2.42 %, suitable zone covers 1333.97 sq km around 21.31 %, moderate zone covers 2912.47 sq km around 46.53 and high suitable zone covers 448.47 sq km around 7.17 % of the total study area. The result delineate the ground water prospect zones in the study area and observed to be useful in better planning, management and sustainable development of ground water resource in future. Keywords : Remote Sensing & GIS, SOI, GSI, NBSS, LISS-III, DEM, MIF, Hydro-Geomorphology, Drainage Density, Lineament Density, Weighted Overlay, Ground Water Prospects. I. INTRODUCTION Groundwater is a vital natural resource on the earth surface; consequently, it assumes a principal part in human prosperity, and additionally that of some aquatic and earthbound biological systems (Magesh et al., 2012). 90% of the rural and about 30% of the urban population depend on ground water to meet their drinking and residential necessities in India (Reddy and Adams, 1996; Pani et al., 2016). Ground water is the part of fresh water resource, in present’s day ground water contributing 34% of the total annual water supply. The assessment of this resource Remote Sensing & GIS are widely utilized for sustainable management of ground water and others natural resources (Dar et al., 2010; Krishna Kumar et al., 2011; Magesh et al., 2011a, b). The remote sensing & GIS is an effective tool for delineation the ground water prospect zone mapping. It is simpler to establish baseline information of ground water prospect zone using satellite image, conventional map and field truth information (Tiwari and Rai,