NCPOR: Indias gateway to Polar Regions
Published: Apr 28, 2019
NCPOR is India’s premier institute mandated to cover scientific studies in all the three poles. The institute is one amongst a few in the world to have bi-polar presence, and pehraps the only one that covers the third pole - Himalaya, and the world oceans in addition to Arctic and Antarctic.
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