{"id":79884,"date":"2025-12-27T13:43:55","date_gmt":"2025-12-27T08:13:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=79884"},"modified":"2025-12-27T13:43:55","modified_gmt":"2025-12-27T08:13:55","slug":"national-council-for-cement-and-building-materials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/national-council-for-cement-and-building-materials\/","title":{"rendered":"National Council for Cement and Building Materials"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>National Council for Cement and Building Materials Latest News<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Recently, the Global Cement and Concrete Association (GCCA) India\u2013NCB Carbon Uptake Report was released on the occasion of the 63rd Foundation Day of the National Council for Cement and Building Materials (NCB).<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About National Council for Cement and Building Materials<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It was <\/span><b>established in 1962 as an apex<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> research and development organization.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Objective:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> To promote <\/span><b>research and scientific work<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> connected with cement and building materials trade and industry.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It functions under the administrative control of <\/span><b>Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT)<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">,<\/span><b> Ministry of Commerce and Industry<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, Govt. of India.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It has its corporate centre and main laboratories <\/span><b>located at Ballabgarh<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (near New Delhi).<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It has a well established regional centre at <\/span><b>Hyderabad a<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">nd a Centres at <\/span><b>Ahmedabad <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(Gujarat) &amp; <\/span><b>Bhubaneswar.<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><b>Functions of National Council for Cement and Building Materials<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">NCB\u2019s areas of work span over the entire spectrum of cement manufacturing and usage.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It serves as the nodal agency for providing the Government the necessary support for <\/span><b>formulation of its policy and<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> planning activities related to growth and development of <\/span><b>cement industry.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is devoted to protecting the interests of consumers of cement and concrete in the country.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Source: <\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pib.gov.in\/PressReleasePage.aspx?PRID=2208907&amp;reg=3&amp;lang=2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">PIB<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>National Council for Cement and Building Materials promotes research, policy support, and innovation in India&#8217;s cement and concrete industry since 1962.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":79904,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[4446,21,23],"class_list":{"0":"post-79884","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"tag-national-council-for-cement-and-building-materials","9":"tag-prelims-pointers","10":"tag-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","11":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79884","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79884"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79884\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}