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Tuesday, Dec 09, 2003
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Industry & Economy
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Science & Technology Centre to spend $100 m on ocean studies Our Bureau
Hyderabad , Dec. 8 THE Department of Ocean Development (DoD) will spend $100 million in its five-year programme to strengthen Ocean-based information services. This would include the addition of a $40 million new ship. Stating this, the Secretary of DoD, Dr Harsh K. Gupta on Monday said the Centre has made necessary funding provisions for projects, which would give India strategic advantages in the Indian Ocean region. In addition to the ship, a major gas hydrates exploitation programme, deployment of data buoys and establishing Ocean bottom seismic meters are the other aspects of the five-year programme, he said while inaugurating the 3-day, international workshop on `Capacity building and strategy for Ocean data and information management,' organised by the Indian National Centre for Ocean Information Services (INCOIS), here. Dr Gupta said the National Institute of Ocean Technology (NIOT), Chennai had successfully indigenised and fabricated data buoy's for about Rs 54 lakh each, compared to imported cost of nearly a crore. These were being deployed in the Indian Ocean cooperative projects between countries in the region. India is currently leading the Indian Ocean Global Ocean Observing System (IOGOOS), with its Secretariat in Hyderabad. The Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of the UNESCO is spearheading the establishment of a GOOS with a global design and regional alliances of countries, said Dr K. Radhakrishnan, Director of INCOIS in his address. Mr William Erb, Head IOC(GOOS), based in Perth, Australia in his address said an Indian Ocean Panel for climate, for an Ocean observation system, coordinated from Perth was being set up. Similarly a coastal project for prawn management has been planned utilising the growing information of the Indian Ocean that is emerging through collaborative projects. The Head of the Ocean Services Section of the Paris-based, IOC, Dr Peter Pissierssens in his remarks said the knowledge about the Indian Ocean was limited when compared to the Atlantic or Pacific, though it occupied 21 per cent of global waters and 30 per cent of world populations inhabited it.
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