India to Host 36th International Geological Congress in New Delhi in March 2020

The 36th International Geological Congress will be held in New Delhi from March 2-8, 2020.
India is the only Asian country to host the Congress twice. The 22nd session of IGC was held in New Delhi in 1964
The International Geological Congress, described as the “Olympics of Geosciences,” is aimed at the development of Earth Sciences.
The theme of the 36th IGC is Geosciences: The Basic Science for a Sustainable Future.
The event will be jointly funded by the Ministry of Mines and the Ministry of Earth Sciences, Government of India and supported by the Indian National Science Academy (INSA) along with the science academies of Bangladesh, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka.
The first session of IGC took place in France in 1878.