{"id":8093,"date":"2017-08-30T18:43:50","date_gmt":"2017-08-30T13:13:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/race4job.com\/blog\/?p=8093"},"modified":"2017-08-30T18:43:50","modified_gmt":"2017-08-30T13:13:50","slug":"current-affairs-government-to-launch-deep-ocean-mission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.race4job.com\/blog\/current-affairs-government-to-launch-deep-ocean-mission\/","title":{"rendered":"Current Affairs: Government to launch Deep Ocean Mission"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000; font-size: 18pt;\">Government to launch Deep Ocean Mission<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The Union Ministry of Earth Sciences (MoES) is going to launch Deep Ocean Mission by January 2018 to encourage research activities in ocean science.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff; font-size: 18pt;\">Key Notes:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">i.The proposed inter-ministerial and interdisciplinary project aims to explore and harness mineral resources beneath the ocean floor.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">ii.India has 7,500 km of coastline and 2.4 million square km of exclusive economic zone (EEZ). The oceans along Indian peninsula contain enormous opportunities in energy, food, medicine and a host of other natural resources.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">iii.The proposed inter-ministerial and interdisciplinary project also seeks to create jobs and business opportunities in social science.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">iv.It will involve the MoES and departments of other ministries like science and technology and the biotechnology etc.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">v.The Ministry would soon launch a special training program on oceanography free of cost for university students.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">vi.India was ranked 15th in the number of research papers on ocean science.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Government to launch Deep Ocean Mission The Union Ministry of Earth Sciences (MoES) is going to launch Deep Ocean Mission by January 2018 to encourage research activities in ocean science. Key Notes: i.The proposed inter-ministerial and interdisciplinary project aims to explore and harness mineral resources beneath the ocean floor. ii.India has 7,500 km of coastline [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.race4job.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8093","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.race4job.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.race4job.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.race4job.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.race4job.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8093"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.race4job.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8093\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8094,"href":"https:\/\/www.race4job.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8093\/revisions\/8094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.race4job.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.race4job.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.race4job.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}