Contents: 1. Multidisciplinary and conceptual approaches for mineral exploration endeavours in supposedly barren terrains/Ravi Shanker. 2. Geodynamic setting of the Central Indian tectonic zone in Central, Eastern and Northeastern India/S.K. Acharyya. 3. Role of geology in national development/P.K.B. Chakravorty. 4. Geological information system in Maharashtra and Madhya Pradesh/S.S. Kanwar, B.K. Bandyopadhyay, R.S. Shukla, P.K. Sinha, S. Chakraborti, A.K. Huin and G.S. Gonnade. 5. Present status of mineral resources in the country, future perspective and opportunities/Anupendu Gupta, Gautam Mukhopadhyay and Balaram Chattopadhyay. 6. Coal resources of India and future perspectives with focus on Central Indian coalfields/A.B. Dutt, R.K. Datta and R.N. Das. 7. Airborne geophysical surveys by Geological Survey of India-an update/S.V.G. Krishna Rao and H.M. Ramachandra. 8. Role of minerals in the industrial and economic growth of the country/K.S. Raju. 9. New approach for exploration of atomic minerals and contribution in national development/A.K. Bhattacharya. 10. Strategy of mineral exploration—post liberalisation era/S.B.S. Chauhan. 11. Palaeoenvironments of late cretaceous sequences of Central India—update and synthesis/S.K. Tandon. 12. Crustal seismic studies in understanding the collision and subduction tectonics of Indian continent—an overview/P.R. Reddy. 13. Aeromagnetic Anomaly interpretation and correlation with geological features of Central India/H.M. Ramachandra, M.P. Mathew, G. Ramesh Acharya, H.C. Gouda and R.K. Singh. 14. Precambrian of Central India: a possible tectonic model/Abhinaba Roy and M. Hanuma Prasad. 15. Crustal evolution and ore genesis-the Central Indian scenario/K.G. Bhoskar, A. Roy and A.K. Saha. 16. Lineament fabric and its relation to the eruption of Deccan Volcanics and seismicity of West-Central India/K.S. Misra. 17. The role of ore microscopic, fluid inclusion and S-Isotopic studies in interpretation of metallogenesis/M.S. Rao, S.P. Venkatadasu, B.R. Venkatesh, R. Ananthanarayana and R. Gopalakrishnan. 18. Geothermal energy—an important non-conventional energy source in India/U.L. Pitale. 19. Needs and expectations of universities from the Geological Survey of India for pursuing national development/D.B. Yedekar. 20. Geology and structure of the Sausar fold Belt: a retrospection and some new thoughts/A. Chattopadhyay, B.K. Bandyopadhyay and A.S. Khan. 21. Gavilgarh-Tan Shear: a prominent ductile Shear zone in Central India with multiple reactivation history/P.R. Golani, B.K. Bandyopadhyay and Anupendu Gupta. 22. Tectonomagmatic history of Tan Shear Zone and its environs : a preliminary study/Abhinaba Roy and M. Hanuma Prasad. 23. Recent find of a cauldron structure in Bundelkhand Craton/S.C. Jain, V.P. Gaur, S.K. Shrivastava, K.V. Nambiar and H.P. Saxena. 24. Review of the geology, tectonic features and tectono-lithostratigraphy of Betul belt/R.K. Chaturvedi. 25. Mahakoshal greenstone belt and associated gold mineralisation/M.K. Soni and D.K. Jha. 26. Bed forms and sedimentary structures within migmatised metasediments associated with polymetallic (U-TH-MO-CU-PB ZN-Y) mineralisation in eastern parts of Son-valley, Sonbhadra (U.P.) and Surguja (Chhattisgarh), Central India/A.K. Bhattacharya. 27. Manganese deposits of Central India—a review/V.V. Mulay. 28. Status of diamond exploration in Panna Diamond Belt, Madhya Pradesh/M.K. Soni, T.K. Rao and D.K. Jha. 29. Status of diamond investigation in Western Bastar Craton, Maharashtra/K. Sashidharan and A.K. Mohanty. 30. Sulphide mineralisation in the Central part of Betul belt around Ghisi-Muariya-Koparpani area, Betul District, Madhya Pradesh/S.P. Mahakud, P.K. Raut, C. Handsa, P.F. Ramteke, U. Chakraborty, M.N. Praveen and D.S. Sisodiya. 31. Polymetallic mineralisation in Sakoli fold belt and their genetic modelling/Ashim K. Saha, Kankan C. Mahapatra, Prabhakar K. Raut and Sweta Chattopadhyay. 32. Status and potential of Konkan bauxite/S.K. Bhatia, S.Y. Katti, K.G. Bhoskar, Prem Babu and R.V. Iyer. 33. Lakhnauti basemetal occurrence in Bundelkhand Craton, District Gwalior, Madhya Pradesh/S.K. Chellani and Uttam Chakraborty. 34. Origin of the Silica sand deposit of Sathang Dhar Block, Dehradun District, Uttaranchal/A. Chatterjee. 35. Exploration for diamond and KCR in the Bastar Craton/S.K. Sarkar, K. Sashidharan, A.K. Mohanty, B.K. Mishra, M.K. Patel, Basudeb Dutta and D.V. Ganvir. 36. Mica composition in rare metal pegmatite and wall rock alteration zone—a potential tool for pollucite investigation/S.K. Som, R.K. Prasad, M.K. Dhara and N. Das. 37. Endeavour of GSI in groundwater resource exploration/P.K. Guharoy and R.K. Roy. 38. Geophysical signatures of Manganese deposits in different geological environments and strategy for their exploration/S.G. Gaonkar, A.K. Das and B.V. Srirama. 39. Application of remote sensing techniques in mineral targetting for Manganese ore in Mansar area/R.K. Srivastava, K.K. Naik, S.G. Krishna, H.M. Ramchandra, A.K. Das, S. Basumallik and S.S. Kanwar. 40. Stratigraphy of Deccan traps: a review/K.K.K. Nair and B. Bhusari. 41. Stratigraphic aspects of Lava channels and tubes from Western parts of the Deccan Volcanic province, India/P.K. Thorat. 42. Lava channel/tube network in Western Maharashtra : study of their morphology, formation and transportation of Deccan Lava/K.S. Misra, A.B. Sabal and R. Bhutani. 43. Petrography and petrochemistry of the Lava tubes in Gunjale and Mulanagar sectors, Ahmednagar Dist. Maharashtra/Anjan Kr. Chatterjee. 44. A theoretical approach to emplacement mechanism of Deccan flood basalts/K.K. Chatterjee, Anupendu Gupta and S.S. Deshmukh. 45. Geology, chemistry and mineralogy of some bole beds of the Eastern Deccan Volcanic province/A. Roy, A.K. Chatterjee, D.K. Pal and P. Srivastava. 46.Geophysical studies over Deccan Trap covered area of Central India-structural evaluation/K. Venkata Rao, K.V.S. Bhaskara Rao and D.V. Punekar. 47. Geology of the Murud-Janjira Alkaline complex Raigad District, Maharashtra, India/P.K. Thorat. 48. Distribution of PGE in basic-ultramafic intrusives associated with continental flood basalt from a part of lower Narmada Rift zone of Deccan Volcanic province, India/M.P. Chawade. 49. The Western Ghats and the associated Tectonism in Deccan Trap Area/R. Dubey. 50. Quaternary mammals of Central India: present status and review/S. Biswas and Arun Sonakia. 51. Dinosaur eggs and dung (Fecal mass) from late cretaceous of Central India: dietary implications/D.M. Mohabey. 52. Do Lameta and Bagh formations (Infra-Trappeans) represent uppermost horizon (UMIA group) of Gondwana sequence?/K.K. Verma. 53. Quaternary geology of Central India/M.P. Tiwari. 54. Geoscientific approach for development of rural economy—a case study in parts of Kaij and Dharur Talukas, Beed Dist., Maharashtra/M. Sinha, M. Mohan, S. Sarkar, G. Gonnade, H. Athavale, N.V. Nitanware, S. Sekar, C. Joshi, P.A. Gaffar, P.K. Aich, N.V. Venkataramana, P. Sharma, V.W. Khangan and V.D. Bhole. 55. Glimpses of Precambrian geology of Central India/B.K. Chakrabarti. 56. Tectonic setting of the Precambrians of the Northeastern India (Meghalaya plateau) and age of the Shillong group of rocks/Sumit Kumar Mitra and Saibal Chandra Mitra. 57. Geothermal drilling practices/B.M. Prasad. 58. N.A.A. Techniques and the role of Ree in crustal rock studies/R.S. Bains, A.D. Nejkar, R.S, Alte, A.D. Peshave and K.K. Deshmukh. 59. The role of instrumental analysis in mineral exploration programs/V.M. Parate and D.G. Marathe. 60. Rich targets of mineralisation in Bastar Craton/V.P. Mishra and N.K. Dutta. 61. Geology of the Deccan traps of Mandla-Kund area/J.N. Solanki, A.K. Bhattacharya, D.D. Bhattacharya and A.K. Jain.