About GSI:
● The Geological Survey of India (GSI) was set up in 1851 primarily to find coal deposits for the Railways.
● Geological Survey of India is an attached office to the Ministry of Mines.
● GSI, headquartered at Kolkata, has six Regional offices located at Lucknow, Jaipur, Nagpur, Hyderabad, Shillong and Kolkata and State Unit offices in almost all States of the country.
● The main functions of GSI relate to creation and updating of national geoscientific information and mineral resource assessment.
In NEWS for:
● Geological Survey of India has for the first time established Lithium inferred resources (G3) of 5.9 million tonnes in Salal-Haimana area of Reasi District of Jammu & Kashmir (UT).
Missions for GSI
● Mission I: Baseline Geoscience, Data Collection.
● Mission II: Natural Resource Assessment.
● Mission III: Geoinformatics.
● Mission IV: Multidisciplinary Geosciences.
● Mission V: Training And Capacity Building.
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