The National Centre for Earth Science Studies (NCESS) is situated in which state ?

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Correct — B, Kerala. The National Centre for Earth Science Studies sits at Akkulam, Thiruvananthapuram, in Kerala. It began in 1978 as the Centre for Earth Science Studies (CESS), an institute set up by the Government of Kerala, and in 2014 it was taken over as an autonomous institute of the Union Ministry of Earth Sciences and renamed NCESS. Its work is classic earth-system science for a coastal, landslide-prone state: shoreline and coastal processes, landslides and other geohazards, groundwater, and crustal/geodynamic studies.

Why the other options are wrong — (a) NCESS is not in Andhra Pradesh. The coastal research presence at Visakhapatnam is a regional centre of CSIR's National Institute of Oceanography — a CSIR body, not the Ministry of Earth Sciences' NCESS.  (c) The Ministry of Earth Sciences institute in Tamil Nadu is the National Institute of Ocean Technology (NIOT) at Chennai, which works on ocean technology and deep-sea engineering. NCESS is a separate institute, and it is in Kerala.  (d) Bengaluru hosts the Indian Institute of Science and ISRO's headquarters, but no Ministry of Earth Sciences national centre of this name. NCESS is not located in Karnataka.

Concept: The Ministry of Earth Sciences (MoES) runs a family of institutes that between them cover the atmosphere, the ocean, the poles and the solid earth. NCESS is its solid-earth and coastal-processes arm; the others are largely ocean and atmosphere bodies. Knowing which institute sits in which city is a standard 'institute–location' fact block for both MPPSC and UPSC.

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