About CGPB

• The Central Geological Programming Board (CGPB) is an important platform of the Geological Survey of India (GSI), Ministry of Mines wherein the Annual Field Season Program (FSP) of GSI is placed for discussion and to avoid duplication of work.  
• The members of CGPB and other stakeholders like State Governments, Central/ State Government Mineral Exploration Agencies, PSUs and Private Entrepreneurs place their requests for collaborative work with GSI. 
• The Ministry of Mines, Government of India had revamped/ reconstituted the CGPB Committee in 2023 into 12 theme-based groups. 

About Geological Survey of India 

• The Geological Survey of India (GSI) was set up in 1851 primarily to find coal deposits for the Railways. 
• Over the years, GSI has not only grown into a repository of geo-science information required in various fields in the country but has also attained the status of a geo-scientific organisation of international repute. 
• Its main functions relate to creating and updating of national geoscientific information and mineral resource assessment. 
• These objectives are achieved through ground surveys, air-borne and marine surveys, mineral prospecting and investigations, multi-disciplinary geoscientific, geo-technical, geo-environmental and natural hazards studies, glaciology, seismo-tectonic study and carrying out fundamental research. 
• GSI, headquartered in Kolkata, has six regional offices located in Lucknow, Jaipur, Nagpur, Hyderabad, Shillong and Kolkata and state unit offices in almost all states of the country. 
• GSI is an attached office to the Ministry of Mines.

Why in News?

• The 63rd Central Geological Programming Board (CGPB) meeting was held recently in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh.

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