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The continuous practice of rice cultivation extensively in huge proportion of land parcels, impervious granite rock portions, non-perennial nature of Halia River, increase in urbanization, soaring temperatures and irregular rainfall patterns all together caused the steep decline in groundwater levels in Munugode and ChandurMandals. As such this research problem is taken up to unveil the potential groundwater areas reliably using GIS technique in short period for their sustainable development.Inventory used are soil, geology, geomorphology, lineaments density, drainage density, land use land cover, slope and rainfall data layers extracted from NBSS & LUS, GSI and ISRO Bhuvan portals. The above layers are processed using ERDAS IMAGINE 2014 and ARCGIS 10.1 software which produced five types of groundwater prospective areas by weighted overlay analysis tool. The results show that the research unit has large area of moderate groundwater prospects encompassing 369.87 sq.km viz., 75.58%. Very low (4.88 sq.km) and low (81.81 sq.km) groundwater prospects together share (17.71%) of study area creating no scope for further groundwater development. High (6.08%) and very high (0.6%) groundwater prospects are the least portion and enclose an area of 32.74 sq.km.This facilitates in judicious planning of groundwater resources.