{"id":159400,"date":"2022-01-07T20:44:49","date_gmt":"2022-01-07T15:14:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=159400"},"modified":"2022-01-07T20:44:49","modified_gmt":"2022-01-07T15:14:49","slug":"open-rock-museum-union-minister-inaugurates-indias-first-open-rock-museum-on-ngri-campus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/open-rock-museum-union-minister-inaugurates-indias-first-open-rock-museum-on-ngri-campus\/","title":{"rendered":"Open rock museum: Union Minister inaugurates India\u2019s first Open Rock Museum on NGRI campus"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h5><b>What is the News?<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Union Minister of State for Science &amp; Technology has inaugurated India\u2019s first open rock museum on the campus of the CSIR-National Geophysical Research Institute (NGRI) in Hyderabad.<\/span><\/p>\n<table style=\"border-collapse: collapse; width: 100%;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 100%;\"><strong>Read more: <a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/union-minister-of-home-affairs-performed-bhoomi-pujan-of-rani-gaidinliu-tribal-freedom-fighters-museum-in-manipur\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Union Minister of Home Affairs performed Bhoomi Pujan of Rani Gaidinliu Tribal Freedom Fighters Museum in Manipur<\/a><\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<h5><b>About India\u2019s First open Rock Museum<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Museum has been set up with an aim to <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">educate and enlighten the masses about several lesser-known facts about rocks.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The museum displays around 35 different types of rocks from different parts of India with ages ranging from 3.3 Billion years to around 55 Million years of the Earth\u2019s history.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">These rocks represent the deepest part of the earth up to 175 km of distance from the surface of the earth.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The rocks have been sourced from Odisha, Tamil Nadu, Uttarakhand, Jharkhand, Jammu &amp; Kashmir and others.<\/span><\/p>\n<table style=\"border-collapse: collapse; width: 100%;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 100%;\"><strong>Read more: <a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/research-centre-for-indian-art-set-up-in-zurich-museum\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Research centre for Indian art set up in Zurich museum<\/a><\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<h5><b>Earthquake risk maps of Lucknow and Dehradun cities\u00a0<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Minister also released the earthquake risk maps of Lucknow and Dehradun cities. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">These maps would<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> serve as inputs for risk assessment in homes, multi-storeyed buildings and infrastructure such as bridges or dams.<\/span><\/p>\n<table style=\"border-collapse: collapse; width: 100%;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 100%;\"><strong>Read more: <a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/nebra-sky-disc-the-oldest-map-of-stars-that-will-be-displayed-at-british-museum\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Nebra Sky Disc: The oldest map of stars that will be displayed at British Museum<\/a><\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><b>Source<\/b>: This post is based on the article<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u2018<\/span><b>Union Minister inaugurates India\u2019s first Open Rock Museum <\/b><b>on NGRI campus<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2019<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">published in <\/span><b>PIB <\/b>on<b> 7<\/b><b>th Jan 2022.<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is the News? Union Minister of State for Science &amp; Technology has inaugurated India\u2019s first open rock museum on the campus of the CSIR-National Geophysical Research Institute (NGRI) in Hyderabad. Read more: Union Minister of Home Affairs performed Bhoomi Pujan of Rani Gaidinliu Tribal Freedom Fighters Museum in Manipur About India\u2019s First open Rock&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/open-rock-museum-union-minister-inaugurates-indias-first-open-rock-museum-on-ngri-campus\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Open rock museum: Union Minister inaugurates India\u2019s first Open Rock Museum on NGRI campus<\/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":[3590],"class_list":["post-159400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-miscellaneous-daily-factly-articles","category-public","tag-pib","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1700878202},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159400","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=159400"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159400\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}