Marine minerals extracted from coastal and ocean sources will be key to India's future economy, Minister of State Earth Sciences Dr Jitendra Singh has said. He added that metals like nickel and cobalt play an important role in promoting renewable energy technologies needed to fight the climate change challenges.
The minister inaugurated the new building facilities at Bhubaneswar's Institute of Minerals & Materials Technology and said that the institute is an R&D Lab of national importance in minerals and materials technology to address the problems of the industry for their sustainable development.
"India has emerged as one of the frontline nations in marine scientific research and is now actively engaged in exploring the resourceful ocean bed for meeting the country's future energy and metal demands. The Deep Ocean Mission initiated by the Modi government heralds yet another horizon to various resources to enrich the blue economy," the minister said.
He noted that steps are being taken for close coordination and collaboration between IIMT and NIOT (National Institute of Ocean Technology), Chennai for accelerated progress in developing India’s blue economy and harnessing its ocean resources adding that efforts are on for the development of suitable technologies for effective mining of some of the deep-sea mineral resources and exploitation of gas hydrates resources.
The Ministry had, earlier this year, launched India’s First Manned Ocean Mission Samudrayan at...
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