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But height given by Survey of India, even today, is taken as the correct height. The endeavour would take about a month for observation and another 15 days for computation and declaration of data, Mr.
Subba Rao said. more-inThe Survey of India would soon “re-measure” the height of Mount Everest to verify doubts expressed over it in some sections of the scientific community following the major earthquake in Nepal two years ago and to help scientific studies, Surveyor General of India Swarna Subba Rao said here. “We are sending an expedition to Mount Everest.Everest height was declared, if I remember correctly, in 1855,” said Mr.
Subba Rao at the Geospatial World Forum in Hyderabad. If the Surveyor General of Nepal has come here (for the conference in Hyderabad), I will have a meeting with him..