India, Norway agree to conduct marine spatial planning in Lakshadweep, Puducherry ANI | Updated: Mar 03, 2021 13:27 IST
New Delhi [India], March 3 (ANI): India and Norway have agreed to jointly work in the area of marine spatial planning in the oceanic space for the next five years, the Union Ministry of Earth Science said here on Wednesday.
The Ministry of Earth Science in a release said the first project steering committee meeting with representatives from both countries was successfully conducted virtually recently, after which the two countries have charted out a plan to ensure that human activities at sea take place in an efficient, safe and sustainable manner in areas such as energy, transportation, fisheries, aquaculture and tourism.
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India, Norway To Jointly Conduct Marine Spatial Planning In Lakshadweep And Puducherry
The Union Ministry of Earth Science said that India and Norway have agreed to jointly work in the area of marine spatial planning in the oceanic space.
The Union Ministry of Earth Science on March 3 said that India and Norway have agreed to jointly work in the area of marine spatial planning in the oceanic space for the next five years. According to a press release by the ministry, the first project steering committee meeting with representatives from both nations was “successfully conducted”. The ministry added that the two countries have chartered out a plan to ensure that human activities at sea take place in an efficient, safe and sustainable manner in areas such as energy, transportation, fisheries, aquaculture and tourism.
Schools at the forefront of waterbody rejuvenation
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‘One School One Pond’ initiative to support institutions in adopting a waterbody in their locality
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C.H. Balamohanan of All for Water for All initiative administering a water conservation pledge to students of SRS Government Girls’ Higher Secondary School ; right, a pond created from a wasteland adjoining the school in Saram.
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‘One School One Pond’ initiative to support institutions in adopting a waterbody in their locality
A school-driven campaign to protect and nourish an estimated 600 waterbodies in Puducherry was launched under the auspices of a collective at the SRS Government Girls’ Higher Secondary School on Tuesday.
A damaged house at the Podampetta village in Odisha. | Pramit Karmakar
Podampetta is a coastal village in the Ganjam district of Odisha. A few years ago, it had several households which were primarily involved in the fishing trade. Now it has only five households. The rest of the village has been resettled by the state government to a new area called New Podampetta, around 300 metres away from the village on the eastern coast of India.
The resettlement of the entire village was triggered by the massive coastal erosion the village witnessed in the last few years. The village lies along the Bay of Bengal, now at a distance of only 50 metres from the sea. Several houses there have been damaged by natural disasters and are now lying in dilapidated conditions.
The emergence of noctiluca blooms, commonly referred to as bioluminescence, along Goa's beaches is a cause for worry because the phenomenon could lead to scarcity of fish off the state's coast, Sunil Kumar Singh, Director, National Institute of Oceanography (NIO).