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NEW DELHI: The Deep Ocean Mission, announced by the finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman in the Budget on Monday, will tap vast marine living and non-living resources including strategic polymetallic nodules such as Copper, Nickel, Cobalt and Manganese in 75,000 sq. km of area in the central Indian Ocean Basin, and put India in the category of the select group of nations, including the US, China, Japan, Germany and Canada, conducting oceanographic research in the deep sea.
Under the mission, allocated Rs 4,000 crore for the next five years, high-tech ‘underwater vehicles’ and ‘underwater robotics’ will be used for deep-sea mining.
Based on the resource evaluation, India has an estimated resource of about 100 million tons of strategic metals in its allotted site in the Central Indian Ocean Basin.
Posted on January 15th, 2021
KAMALIKA PIERIS
The Indian Ocean is the third-largest
ocean in the world. It is 70,560,000 km
2
(27,240,000 sq mi) in extent. It is bounded by Asia to the
north, Africa to the west,
Australia to the east and Antarctica to the
south. The Arabian Sea, the Laccadive
Sea, the Somali Sea, Bay of Bengal, and the Andaman
Sea are located within the Indian Ocean.
Initially,
only the sea around South Asia was known as Indian Ocean. The western section
was known in ancient times as the Erythraean Sea. Erythraean Sea included the
Persian Gulf and Red Sea. In the 16
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