Question

Central Glass and Ceramic Research Institute is located at
1. Agra
2. Khurja
3. Kanpur
4. Ferozabad

Answer 1

Correct Answer - Option 2 : Khurja

The correct answer is Khurja.

• The Central Glass and Ceramic Research Institute, Kolkata established its Khurja Centre in August 1981 under an assurance for continuous financial support from the Government of Uttar Pradesh. 

• This Centre is functioning to cater to the needs of developing creaming and allied industries in the state, particularly to the Ceramic Industries in the Small Scale and Rural Sector.

• Khurja having a 600-year-old tradition of pottery manufacturing has now become a center of the Ceramic Industry having more than 494 units in the small-scale sector and one of the largest whiteware clusters in India.

• In its journey of nearly three decades, this Centre of CGCRI has contributed to a great extent to the modernization and all-around development of ceramic industries in Khurja on energy efficiency & Cluster Development.