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Why in News?
- India has set in motion an ambitious plan to create Indianised version of the worldfamous Smithsonian Museum, showcasing Indian subcontinent’s evolutionary history
The Indian Museum of the Earth (TIME)
- PPP
- Dynamic place
- Repository
- Modelled on the American Museum of Natural History
India’s richness
- India has a rich geological history
- Prominent fossils include the jaw of an extinct ape.
Need of Museum
- India is home to a vast treasury of geological and palaeontological specimens
- Several collections of fossils and important geological specimens weren’t properly organised,
- But these rare specimens are scattered in different labs all over the country.
- India doesn’t have a single such museum of repute