The headquarters of National Research Laboratory for Conservation of Cultural Property (NRLC) is located at
- (a)New Delhi
- (b)Lucknow
- (c)Kolkata
- (d)Bhopal
Correct — B, Lucknow. The National Research Laboratory for Conservation of Cultural Property (NRLC) — the country's premier institution for the scientific conservation of museum objects, manuscripts, paintings and monuments — has its headquarters at Lucknow. Set up in 1976 under the Ministry of Culture, it works on preserving India's movable cultural heritage and runs a regional conservation laboratory at Mysuru. It is not headquartered at New Delhi, Kolkata or Bhopal.
- (a)New Delhi — The seat of many cultural bodies (the National Museum, the ASI headquarters), but not of the NRLC, which is at Lucknow.
- (c)Kolkata — Home to the Indian Museum and the Victoria Memorial, but not to the NRLC.
- (d)Bhopal — Seat of institutions such as the IGRMS (the tribal and anthropological museum), not the NRLC.
The NRLC, at Lucknow and established in 1976, is the apex laboratory under the Ministry of Culture for the scientific preservation and conservation of cultural property — museum artefacts, manuscripts, paintings and monuments. It also trains conservators and operates a Regional Conservation Laboratory at Mysuru.
Link the institution to its city. The distractors are all major 'culture' cities; the specific fact to hold is NRLC = Lucknow, with a regional laboratory at Mysuru.
- The NRLC is headquartered at Lucknow and was established in 1976.
- It functions under the Ministry of Culture, Government of India.
- Its mandate is the scientific conservation of movable cultural property (art objects, manuscripts, monuments).
- It runs a Regional Conservation Laboratory at Mysuru.
- Defaulting to New Delhi for any national cultural body.
- Confusing the NRLC with the ASI or the National Museum.
Match a national cultural institution to its city — NRLC points to Lucknow.
The Archaeological Survey of India is an attached office of the Department/Ministry of
- (a) Culture
- (b) Tourism
- (c) Science and Technology
- (d) Human Resource Development
Answer(a) Culture
Adjacent concept — India's cultural-heritage institutions and the Ministry of Culture they sit under. UPSC places the ASI under Culture; the NRLC in this item is another Ministry-of-Culture body, headquartered at Lucknow.
- practice — not a real PYQ
The National Research Laboratory for Conservation of Cultural Property (NRLC) functions under which Ministry?
- (a)Ministry of Culture
- (b)Ministry of Education
- (c)Ministry of Science and Technology
- (d)Ministry of Tourism
Answer(a) Ministry of Culture — it is the apex conservation laboratory under it.
- practice — not a real PYQ
The NRLC, India's premier laboratory for the conservation of cultural property, is located at
- (a)New Delhi
- (b)Lucknow
- (c)Hyderabad
- (d)Bhopal
Answer(b) Lucknow — with a regional laboratory at Mysuru.