Current Affairs - Miscellaneous - Discussion

The Centre drew a five-year plan and allocated Rs. 8000 crore to explore the ocean and its resources. It would focus on deep sea mining, under water robotics, underwater vehicles and ocean climate change. The goals would be achieved by : establishing offshore desalination plant for tidal energy, developing a submersible vehicle that can travel to atleast 6,000 metres with three people on board. 10 percent of the recovery from these reserves have been presumed to meet the energy requirement of India for the next 100 years with the presence of 380 million metric tonnes of polymetallic nodules in the Central Indian Ocean Basin.