The Geographical Indications Registry of India is located in which city?
- A.New Delhi
- B.Mumbai
- C.Chennai
- D.Kolkata
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Explanation
The correct answer is C, Chennai. The Geographical Indications Registry works from Chennai under the Controller General of Patents, Designs and Trade Marks, which comes under the Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade in the Ministry of Commerce and Industry. It registers GIs under the Geographical Indications of Goods, Registration and Protection, Act of 1999, which came into force on 15 September 2003, and a registration lasts ten years and may be renewed.
Option A, New Delhi, holds the head office of the Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade but not the GI Registry. Option B, Mumbai, and option D, Kolkata, hold patent and trade mark offices, which is the source of the confusion, since the patent offices are spread over Kolkata, Mumbai, Chennai and Delhi. The GI Registry, however, sits only at Chennai, and the first Indian GI registered there was Darjeeling tea.
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Practice Questions
View allThe chikankari style of embroidery is traditionally associated with which city of Uttar Pradesh?
- A.Varanasi
- B.Lucknow
- C.Agra
- D.Bareilly
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Chikankari is the shadow embroidery of Lucknow, worked in white thread on fine cotton, muslin or chiffon, and its stitches, tepchi, bakhiya, murri, phanda and jaali, are learnt as a set.
Read the full explanation →Which city of Uttar Pradesh is called Peetal Nagri, the brass city of India?
- A.Moradabad
- B.Firozabad
- C.Aligarh
- D.Khurja
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Moradabad has worked brass for centuries into engraved, enamelled and lacquered vessels, lamps and decorative ware, and the trade gave it the name Peetal Nagri.
Read the full explanation →Kannauj in Uttar Pradesh is famous for the manufacture of which product?
- A.Carpets
- B.Attar and perfume
- C.Glass bangles
- D.Black pottery
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Kannauj is called the perfume capital of India. Its distillers work by the deg and bhapka method, in which flower petals, herbs or sandalwood are heated in copper vessels over a wood fire and the vapour is condensed into a receiver containing sandalwood oil.
Read the full explanation →Khurja, known for its glazed pottery and holding a GI tag, lies in which district of Uttar Pradesh?
- A.Bulandshahr
- B.Hapur
- C.Meerut
- D.Mathura
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Khurja is a town in Bulandshahr district of western Uttar Pradesh, and its thick glazed pottery, painted in bright floral patterns on a white ground, is sold as Khurja pottery and is a registered geographical indication.
Read the full explanation →The black pottery of Nizamabad, a registered GI craft, belongs to which district of Uttar Pradesh?
- A.Ghazipur
- B.Azamgarh
- C.Jaunpur
- D.Mau
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Nizamabad is a town in Azamgarh district, and its potters make thin walled black pottery that is rubbed with mustard oil, fired in a closed kiln so that the smoke blackens the clay, and then decorated with silver-coloured patterns applied with a zinc and mercury paste.
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