ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE

The Geological Survey of Pakistan functions as an attached department in the Federal Ministry of Petroleum & Natural Resources. It is the only Federal organization headquartered at Quetta - the capital of Balochistan province which constitutes 40 percent of Pakistan's land mass with only 5 percent of its population but exhibiting varied array of geological features and mineralization processes. The Quetta office of the GSP houses the main museum, the Balochistan Division and the Hydrogeology Division.

With the progressive increase in scope and magnitude of work, some of the GSP's activities have been regionalised for achieving more effective implementation of its mapping programme and to have better and closer liaison with the provincial authorities. Consequently regional offices have been opened at Islamabad, Lahore, Karachi and Peshawar and a camp office at Muzaffarabad in Azad Jammu & Kashmir. The main research facility of the GSP- the national Geoscience Research Complex has been established at Islamabad. Presently it comprises the Geoscience Laboratory (GeoLab) and the Geodata Centre of Pakistan (GDCP). In future it will also house the Regional Geoscience Research & Training Centre (RGRTC). The GSP's newly created Environmental Geology Division is also located in Islamabad.

The technical activities of the Department are organized in to Programme Divisions based broadly on the basis of research & data needs of the country required to pursue sustainable development policies leading to enhanced economic competitiveness of Pakistan. These divisions are in turn made up of branches, sections, groups and units within which project teams operate based on scientific discipline, geographical focus or the market demand.