⇒ Union Minister of State (I/C) Science & Technology; Minister of State (I/C) Earth Sciences; MoS PMO, Personnel, Public Grievances, Pensions, Atomic Energy and Space, Dr Jitendra Singh addressed the inaugural ceremony of Joint Scientific Assembly of International Association of Geomagnetism and Aeronomy – International Association of Seismology and Physics of the Earth’s Interior on 21 August 2021.
Host:
IAGA and IASPEI had come together to organize a joint assembly in the year 2021, which was hosted by CSIR-NGRI with the support of Ministry of Earth Sciences of the Government of India.
Key points of the Minister’s address:
» The minister said that India is going to have 35 more earthquake Observatories by end of this year and 100 more such Observatories in next five years.
He said that in the last six and a half decades since Independence, the country had only 115 Earthquake Observatories.
» The Minister expressed hope that the Joint Scientific Assembly of IAGA – IASPEI will act as a catalyst in bringing on board a greater number of researchers and practitioners from global community to work on issues related to rendering science to society.