PoshaneEvery sapling accounted for, until it becomes a tree.
Poshane is the survival-assurance platform for afforestation. It runs new programmes from planning to the year-five census, and it counts plantations already in the ground tree by tree. Boundaries are walked, sites are tagged, and anyone can check the record.
ಪೋಷಣೆ means nurture in Kannada: the care that has to follow planting, season after season, until a sapling can stand on its own.
Planting takes a day. Survival takes five years.
Most programmes count saplings on planting day. Then the maintenance contract runs out, the photographs stop coming, and nobody can say how many are still alive, or where.
Land gets planted twice. Species are swapped at the nursery gate. Survival figures are typed in by the people paid to achieve them.
Poshane is built around the question that gets asked later: which sites survived, and who is answerable for the ones that didn't?
Two kinds of programme. One platform.
From bare land to a counted forest
For programmes starting from scratch: land identification, verification, species planning, nursery, planting, maintenance and survival audits, and everything in between.
See the five stagesAlready plantedEvery surviving tree, counted and pinned
For plantations already in the ground: a full enumeration of every surviving plant, with its species, girth, height, health and photograph, geo-tagged where it stands.
See how enumeration worksNew planting: from land offer to living tree
One record per site, keyed by its Location ID, carried through five stages. Each stage has a gate that the next one depends on.
Land is offered
Government departments and private landownersDepartments offer land through a form or a bulk spreadsheet upload, checked row by row against the officer's own jurisdiction. Private landowners offer land with their RTC uploaded. Every offer receives a reference.
An offer is not a site. It gets no Location ID until someone has walked it.Walked and verified
Verification cadre, two officers per talukAn officer walks the boundary with a handset. Area and perimeter are calculated from the GPS track, never typed in. The declared land is compared with what was found, checked against Bhoomi land records and tested for overlap with every existing site on the State's GIS layers. Only then is a Location ID issued and a tag printed.
No land record. No custodian. No planting approval.Planned and raised
Scientific advisors and the Forest DepartmentEach site gets its own species plan, set by its agro-climatic zone, land category and measured area. Scientific advisors approve or return it. Approved plans add up to a nursery raising requirement by district, species and bag size, worked back from the planting season.
Nothing is sown for a site until its plan has been approved.Dispatched and planted
Nurseries and implementing agenciesEvery nursery batch is checked against the approved plan for its site. The agency records what it planted against what it received, species by species, and binds the tag to the site.
A species outside the plan is flagged on the record for everyone to see. Nothing is swapped quietly.Maintained, counted and audited
Implementing agency, co-signed by an independent audit officerBetween visits the agency reports against the site's maintenance schedule: watering, weeding, manuring, protection and casualty replacement. At each census it counts survivors against what was planted, and an audit officer co-signs. Survival is calculated from the two counts. A site below threshold opens a rectification with a named owner and a deadline, and anything left unanswered moves up to the district, then the state.
The officer who walked a boundary can never audit that site.
Already planted: start with a count of every tree
Many plantations have a planting-day figure and nothing since. Poshane goes back to the ground and records every plant that survived, so the plantation finally has a baseline it can be held to.
Register the site
The boundary is walked and the site gets a Location ID and a tag, exactly as a new site would.
Enumerate every surviving plant
Each plant is geo-tagged where it stands and photographed, with its species, girth at breast height, height and current health recorded.
Publish the baseline
Survivors by species, size classes, health and gaps where plants have died, all traceable to individual records.
Bring it under care
From the baseline on, the site follows the same maintenance, census and audit as any new planting.
- Plant
- 0418 of 1,262 on this site
- Species
- Pongamia pinnata (Honge)
- Girth at breast height
- 34 cm
- Height
- 4.2 m
- Health
- Healthy
- Position
- 14.31847 N, 76.65219 E (±4 m)
- Photographed
- 12 Oct 2026, clocks agree
Everything Karnataka's programme asked for, in one register
KSLSA set out what a state programme has to answer for. Poshane covers all of it, on the same Location ID, through the same gates.
Afforestation on public land
Block, bund, roadside, canal, urban and institutional plantings, each measured the right way: as an area walked or a line traced.
Private land offerings
Farmers and owners offer their own land with the RTC uploaded. It is verified against Bhoomi and FRUITS before the offer is accepted, then walked like any other site.
Lake rejuvenation
The walking officer records the lake's parameters. Foreshores and bunds get a Location ID and are planted per kilometre.
Soil and moisture conservation
Trenches, pits, bunds and check structures are recorded against the site they serve, so water work and planting can be read together.
Biotic and anthropogenic pressure
Grazing, fire, encroachment and cutting are logged as threats on the site, with the protection that answers each one and who owns it.
Carbon capture
The landowner and carbon rights holder are recorded at verification. Census data then supports sequestration estimates, authentication and audit, without ever holding up the planting.
Connected to the State's own records
Poshane doesn't ask anyone to take a site on trust. It checks each one against the systems the State already relies on.
Satellite and GIS
Every walked boundary sits on satellite imagery and the State's GIS layers. Overlaps are caught before approval, and canopy is followed from space as the years pass.
Bhoomi
Survey numbers and RTCs are checked against Karnataka's land records, so a site has a land record and a custodian before anything is planted.
FRUITS
Private landowners are matched to the State's farmer registry, which links their participation to the schemes and benefits they are already enrolled in.
One register. A way in for everyone who answers to it.
Every app reads the same programme register. Each person sees their own scope in full, and nothing beyond it.
| App | Used by | What it does |
|---|---|---|
| Command Center | Programme officers, from state to taluk | The full pipeline of land intake, verification, plans, nursery, planting and census, with every list sorted by what needs attention first. |
| Poshane Field | Verification and audit cadres, implementing agencies | An installable app that works offline. It handles boundary walks, planting records, census and inspection, with photographs that carry their own time and position. |
| Poshane Review | State, district and taluk committees | Steering-committee reviews with an exception list, a named owner on every item and decisions carried from one meeting to the next. Peers appear only as a ranking. |
| Poshane Partners | CSR funders and contributing organisations | Follow the sites you funded, including the ones that are failing and what is being done about them. Raise a query and watch it move. |
| Public Record | Anyone, without signing up | Scan a site tag to see where it is, what was planted, when it was counted and how it came to be planted. |
No one signs themselves up. Every officer, agency and partner is entered by the authority above them, against a mobile number, and signs in with a one-time code.
Built for everyone who plants on public trust
Governments and authorities
Run a state-wide programme with every district and taluk reporting from the same record.
- Jurisdiction-scoped access
- Committee reviews with escalation
- Your programme's data stays yours
CSR funders
See exactly which ground your contribution planted, and how it is doing years later.
- Sites allotted to your funding
- Past plantations enumerated tree by tree
- Evidence for ESG reporting
Implementing agencies
One work queue for your allotted sites, from planting through every maintenance round.
- Plans to plant against
- Shortfalls recorded with reasons
- Rectifications with clear deadlines
Foundations and networks
Run many projects in many places, each on its own isolated instance with its own reporting.
- Your own branding and dashboards
- Cross-project oversight
- Programme management support
Rules the record keeps, so nobody has to take anyone's word for it
Area is measured, never typed
Every site's area and length come from the track walked on the ground.
No one checks their own work
Verification and audit are separate cadres, and the system refuses an officer who tries to audit a site they walked.
Both numbers are kept
Where an agency and an auditor count the same ground, both counts stay on the record. Shortfalls keep their reasons.
Photographs carry their own proof
Each image holds its capture time from the satellite clock, its position and the officer who took it. It is written once and never replaced.
Money never passes through
Funds flow directly between funders, programme owners and agencies. Poshane records the work, not the payments.
Data stays in India
The register is hosted in India, the programme owner owns its data, and a full export is available if the arrangement ever ends.
Five crore saplings across Karnataka
Poshane is the platform for the Karnataka State Legal Services Authority's Five Crore Sapling Plantation and Lake Rejuvenation Programme, a five-year effort reaching every district and taluk of the state.
- Programme owner
- Karnataka State Legal Services Authority (KSLSA)
- Principal Scientific Advisory Body and Program Management Unit
- Institution of Agroforestry Farmers and Technologists (IAFT)
- Selected
- By KSLSA's expert committee, September 2026
- Launched
- At the State Level Afforestation Committee, 29 October 2026
- Programme data
- Owned by KSLSA
Part of Grobet's AgriTech family
Poshane makes sure a site survives. These two help decide what should grow there in the first place.
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See Poshane on your own programme
We'll walk you through a live register, from a land offer to a counted site, and show how it would fit your programme's structure.
- The area or number of sites you are planning
- Who owns the land and who will plant it
- How funding reaches the ground