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GSI to set up Gondwana Research Centre to boost exploration

April 23: In a bid to boost its coal exploration activities, Geological Survey of India (GSI) is setting up a Gondwana Research Centre in Kolkata.

The proposed centre would be set up under the aegis of Mission II-B (Natural Energy Resources), GSI, Kolkata, and would focus on identifying and investigating specific problems of Gondwana geology.

"It would help regions to carry out and take up geo-scientific research programmes to address thematic problems and issues of Gondwana geology, detailed basin analyses and work out sequence stratigraphy and inter-regional and international correlations," Dr S K Wadhawan, Director General, GSI, said in a communique on April 22.

Gondwana basins of India are the major repository of coal deposits, accounting for more than 99% of the country's resource, the balance 1% being associated with early tertiary pericratonic basins.