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From the research, it was studied that one of the saturated formation of the earth material which not only stores water but yield it in sufficient quantity was an aquifer. Wells forms the most important mode of groundwater extraction from an aquifer. Open wells were extensively used for drinking-water supply in rural communities and in small farming operations. Well-hydraulics in confined and unconfined flow for steady and unsteady state of groundwater aims at the determination of discharge and permeability of the aquifer by using field parameters. Field data represented the point measurement whereas hydrological model dealt at catchment or sub-catchment level. The purpose of this paper was to develop computer-based conceptual groundwater software model for well-hydraulics, a computer-based programming. The approach was to assemble fundamental equations of well-hydraulics like estimating discharge, recuperation of groundwater, well loss, well efficiency and specific capacity of the well into one program that would take into account all those parameters affecting the groundwater hydrology and can simply execute the output. This was going to be a productive methodology for site engineers as instead of collecting data from the field and Analysing it in the office, the same can be achieved on the field itself if this program was brought in practice. Factors affecting the well represented the parameters. The mathematical interdependencies between these parameters would be used to develop a groundwater software model representing hydraulics of well. Model can be calibrated using field data. Model validation would be based on the comparison of the output of the model from the program with the observed data provided by the standard specification. The overall idea of the paper was to avoid manual calibration and calculation, instead to provide a computer-based program in order to simplify the conception of well-hydraulics. The future scope of this paper was to transmute this software model into an android application for improved use of this contemporary model.