The Vice President of India, Venkaiah Naidu, while interacting with Scientists of National Institute of Oceanography (NIO), in Dona Paula, Goa has called for fully tapping the enormous potential of the Blue Economy for the country to achieve higher economic growth.
About:
Parent Body: The National Institute of Oceanography (NIO) is one of the 37 constituent laboratories of the Council of Scientific & Industrial Research (CSIR), New Delhi.
Location: NIO is headquartered at Dona Paula, Goa, and has regional centres at Kochi, Mumbai and Visakhapatnam.
History: NIO was established in 1966 following the International Indian Ocean Expedition (IIOE) in the 1960s.
Functions:
It is a multi-disciplinary oceanographic research institute. The major research areas include the four traditional branches of oceanography - biological, chemical, geological/geophysical, and physical – as well as ocean engineering, marine instrumentation and marine archaeology.
It also operates two research vessels RV Sindhu Sankalp (56 m) and RV Sindhu Sadhana (80 m) that are equipped for multidisciplinary oceanographic observations.
CSIR-NIO serves as an advanced centre of education in ocean sciences. It has a School of Oceanography under the Academy of Scientific & Innovative Research (AcSIR).
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