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Geomagnetic centre at Assam varsity

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OUR CORRESPONDENT Published 05.05.10, 12:00 AM

Silchar, May 4: A geomagnetic observatory of the Mumbai-based Indian Institute of Geomagnetism (IIG) was inaugurated this afternoon on the Assam Central University campus at Dargakona hills, 25km south of Silchar.

Inaugurated by the vice-chancellor of the Assam Central University, Tapodhir Bhattacharjee, the observatory is the second of its kind in the Northeast and 10th in the country.

The first observatory in this region was opened in Shillong.

The observatory will aim at research on the physical phenomenon produced by the motion of the electric charge in the surface of the earth and in its subterranean spheres.

The IIG is a scientific research institute run by Union ministry of science and technology.

The chairman of the governing council of the IIG, B.M. Reddy, and its director Archana Bhattacharjee were present at its inauguration ceremony on the university campus.

The Assam Central University has provided three acres of land where the IIG observatory will be located.

Built at an estimated cost of Rs 50 crore, Reddy said more facilities and infrastructure would be gradually set up at this observatory.

The director of the IIG, Archana Bhattacharjee, said the observatory, set up on the Dargakona hills, was powerful enough to get the feedback as well as clear pictures of the geological condition in the earth’s underground from a distance of 3,000 metres.

Reddy described the inauguration of this observatory on the Assam University campus as a “landmark occasion in the orbit of scientific research”.

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