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‘Survey of India’ is under the Ministry of
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- Defence
- Environment and Forests
- Home Affairs
- Science and Technology
- Defence
Correct Option: B
The Survey of India, headquartered at Dehra Dun, is India’s central engineering agency in charge of mapping and surveying. Set up in 1767 to help consolidate the territories of the British East India Company, it is one of the oldest Engineering Departments of the Government of India. It is under the Department of Science & Technology which is a department within the Ministry of Science and Technology in India.