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UNESCO International Training Centre for Operational Oceanography inaugurated
UNESCO International Training Centre for Operational Oceanography inaugurated in Hyderabad
Union Minister for Science & Technology, Earth Sciences, Environment, and Forests & Climate Change, Dr. Harsh Vardhan on 22nd December 2018 inaugurated the newly instituted International Training Centre for Operational Oceanography (ITCOocean) Complex in the INCOIS campus at Hyderabad, Telangana.
Harsh Vardhan dedicated the ITCOocean to the Former Prime Minister Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee and named the academic building as Atal Bhavan and the Guest House as Atal Atithi Griha.
This UNESCO category 2 center was established by the Ministry of Earth Sciences (MoES), Govt. of India earlier in 2013 but it upgraded to assist UNESCO and its Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC).
It will help in providing capacity building and training activities in operational oceanography.
It will thus benefit the South Asian and African states bordering the Indian Ocean and the small island nations in the Pacific from INCOIS’ ocean science and management practices.
Background
The General Conference of UNESCO approved the offer of Government of India to establish ITCOocean as a UNESCO Category 2 Centre in November 2017.
Telangana
Statehood: 2nd June 2014
Capital: Hyderabad
Districts: 31
Official Language: Urdu & Telugu
Chief Minister: K.Chandrashekhar Rao
Governor: E.S.L. Narasimhan
