NATIONAL MARINE GEO SCIENTIFIC DATA CENTRE

The Ministry of Earth Sciences (MoES) and the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA), under the aegis of National Centre for Antarctic and Ocean Research (NCAOR), has initiated a national mission on ‘External Continental Shelf’ along with National Hydrographic Office (NHO), National Institute of Oceanography (NIO), National Geophysical Research Institute (NGRI), Geological Survey of India (GSI), Directorate General of Hydrocarbons (DGH) and Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC), in 2001. Over 40 scientists from these premier geoscientific institutions of the country had been engaged in one of the most challenging and multifaceted tasks ever undertaken by India in the offshore realm, for defining and determining the outer limits of the country’s continental shelf beyond 200 nautical miles from its coastal baselines.