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Dr. G.C. Chauley, Director in the Archaeological Survey of India is well known as an Archaeologist, Conservation, Scholar. He has joined in the A.S.I. In 1970 and worked in different capacities as Curator of Museums, Dy. Superintending Archaeologist, Superintending Archaeologist. He earned name and fame for his outstanding excavation works viz. (i) lalitgiri in Orissa and discovery of Buddhist relic caskets, the 1st of its kind reported from East India (ii) Udaygiri (Madhavapur Mahavihar in Orissa) (iii) Sravasti in U.P. He is equally famous for his decades active involvements with the deplastering and conservation project of Lord Jagannath Temple at Puri and Kanthi Deul at Ratanpur in Bilaspur Dist. Besides a large number of monuments in Orissa, Chattisgarh and N. East India go facelifted, beautified and concerved under his personal care and supervision. He is also responsible for the reorganisations of Archaeological Museum at Bodhgaya, Vellah Goa, Lothal. He has in his credit over sixty five research papers on Art, Archaeology and Museology, Excavations and Conservations of monuments etc. published / presented in different journals and national and International Seminars. He has visited Jordan and Bangladesh under Cultural Exchange Programme for study of Monuments and museums of those countries.