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of conservation, dissemination of knowledge in conservation and provides
services to conservation professional of the country. NRLC with its headquarters
at Lucknow, has full fledged Training Institute campus at Jankipuram, Lucknow
and a regional centre - Regional Conservation Laboratory at Mysore set up for
catering to conservation needs of south India.
Ramakrishna Mission Institute of Culture
The Institute was conceived in 1936 as one of the permanent memorials to Sri
Ramakrishna (1836-1886) on the occasion of his first birth centenary. It was
formally established in 1938 as a branch centre of the Ramakrishna Mission
founded by Swami Vivekananda to propagate the message of Vedanta as
propounded by Sri Ramakrishna, whose basic teachings stressed: (i) the equality
of all religions; (ii) the potential divinity of man; and (iii) service to man is a
way of worshipping God-a new religion for mankind.
Anthropological Survey of India
The Anthropological Survey of India (An.S.I.) is an institution one of its unique
kind anywhere the world. It has been mandated to study the bio-cultural
attributes of the Indian populations since its establishment, about 65 years before.
Over the decades, the An.S.I. grew from strength to strength to acquire an
unparalleled blend of holistic perspective to study the human surface of the
country. The activities include collection, preservation, maintenance,
documentation and study of ethnographic materials as well as ancient human
skeletal remains. Of late, the Anthropological Survey of India went about an all
round modernization of its infrastructure to usher in the DNA technology to
study the phylogenies of Indian populations, the anthropological genetics of
diseases and the frontier areas of Anthropology. Over the years, the survey has
generated information from grass-root level through sustained research by its
Head Office, Kolkata, seven regional centres (Port Blair, Shillong, Nagpur,
Mysore, Dehradun, Udaipur, Kolkata), one sub-regional centre (Jagadalpur),
three field stations Sagar, Ranchi, Visakhpatnam and camp office (New Delhi).
The Survey published various books, monographs, Research Reports and
other occasional publications. Survey also publishes its quarterly newsletter
and biannual house journal. The survey organizes various conferences, seminar,
workshops and exhibition in collaboration with Universities and other Academic
institution of the country.
National Archives of India
The National Archives of India is the custodian of the non-current records of
the Government of India and is holding them in trust for the use of the records
creators and the users at large. It is the biggest repository of the non-current
records in south east Asia. Archives are the priceless documentary heritage of
any nation and as the premier archival institution in the country; the National
Archives of India (NAI) plays a key role in guiding and shaping the development
of archives both at the national as well as international level. In its unique