Hima Bindu

The next Anthropology batch begins on the 20th Dec '15. Here's what my humble experience, past students and officers who cleared with Anthropology evaluates about the optional
1. Clear, well defined & pretty static (almost not dynamic) syllabus
2. Among the Highest scoring optional subjects.
3. Questions are mostly direct and repeated.
4. In sync and complimentary to social issues, essay, ethics & integrity, science & technology and few other areas of GS.
6. Suitable to the students from all educational backgrounds.

Wish u all a very happy , successful and prosperous new year.... Dear students let's take a new year oath " I endure till I succeed"

India on 2 December 2014 joined the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) Project as a Full Member. With USA, China, Japan and Canada to build the largest telescope in the world at Mauna Kea in Hawaii.
India became the full member of the project after K Vijay Raghavan, Secretary, Department of Science and Technology (DST) under the Union Ministry of Science and Technology, signed the documents to change India's formal relationship from Associate to Member of the TMT International Observatory (TIO). DST is the financial authority of India-TMT.
India-TMT will be a joint project of the DST and Department of Atomic Energy (DAE) that will be anchored in the Indian Institute of Astrophysics (IIA) and led by IIA; Aryabhatta Research Institute of Observational Sciences, Nainital; and Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics, Pune.

India’s contribution to the Project

Total cost of 1299.8 crore rupees from 2014 to 2023.
India's contributions to the project will be in the areas of software systems, segment production and the production of the very high precision sensors and actuators that make the primary mirror possible.
India will deliver 100 smaller, hexagonal mirrors out of a total of 492 that is needed to build the 30m diameter primary mirror of the telescope. Japan, China and the US will supply the remainder whereas Canada will construct the dome.
India will also deliver 3444 edge sensors that will guide the actuators in aligning the segments.

About TMT Project

Thirty Metre Telescope (TMT) is being built at the height of 4050 meter on Mauna Kea Mountains in Hawaii. It is expected to be completed by 2020. It will enable astronomers to study objects in our own solar system and stars throughout our Milky Way and its neighboring galaxies, and forming galaxies at the very edge of the observable Universe, near the beginning of time.