{"id":127740,"date":"2021-08-21T18:46:29","date_gmt":"2021-08-21T13:16:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=127740"},"modified":"2021-08-22T08:34:57","modified_gmt":"2021-08-22T03:04:57","slug":"geological-survey-of-india-mobile-app","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/geological-survey-of-india-mobile-app\/","title":{"rendered":"Geological Survey of India Mobile App"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Source: <\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pib.gov.in\/PressReleasePage.aspx?PRID=1747607\"><b>PIB<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<h5><b>What is the News?<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Geological Survey of India (GSI) has decided to upgrade its mobile application to add new features as part of its efforts to create more awareness about its activities among the public.<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><b>About GSI App:<\/b><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li><b>GSI Mobile app <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">was launched in 2020. The app is<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> divided into various sections where it talks about the legacy of GSI, the in-house publications of the organisation, various case studies on different missions of GSI, the picture gallery among others.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5><b>About <\/b><b>Geological Survey of India(GSI):<\/b><\/h5>\n<ol>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><b>The Geological Survey of India (GSI) <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">was set up in 1851. Currently, it is <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">an attached office to the Ministry of Mines.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><b>It was primarily set up <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">to find coal deposits for the Railways. Over the years, GSI has grown into a repository of geo-science information required in various fields in the country.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><b>Its main functions<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> relate to creating and updating national geoscientific information and mineral resource assessment.\u00a0<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><b>These objectives are achieved through<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> ground surveys, air-borne and marine surveys, mineral prospecting,\u00a0 seismotectonic study and carrying out fundamental research.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Headquarters:<\/strong> GSI is headquartered in Kolkata. It has six regional offices located in Lucknow, Jaipur, Nagpur, Hyderabad, Shillong and Kolkata<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: PIB What is the News? Geological Survey of India (GSI) has decided to upgrade its mobile application to add new features as part of its efforts to create more awareness about its activities among the public. About GSI App: GSI Mobile app was launched in 2020. The app is divided into various sections where&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/geological-survey-of-india-mobile-app\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Geological Survey of India Mobile App<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,7965,9],"tags":[231,9228,9227],"class_list":["post-127740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-miscellaneous-daily-factly-articles","category-public","tag-education","tag-gsi-mobile-app","tag-technical-education","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":1700770524,"cached_date":1704867676},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127740","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127740"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127740\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}