Samudrayaan Mission Gets Rs 600 Crore Allocation in Union Budget 2025
The mission involves mapping deep ocean floors and developing technologies like a manned submersible with a 6000 m water-depth rating.
Samudrayaan Mission Gets Rs 600 Crore Allocation in Union Budget 2025
An ambitious mission of the country to send scientists to explore the depths of the ocean in the specially-designed submersible Samudrayaan got a boost with Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman allocating Rs 600 crore for the Deep Ocean Mission.
The mission involves mapping deep ocean floors and developing technologies like a manned submersible with a 6000 m water-depth rating. It also involves exploration of deep-sea mining for sustainable utilization of deep-sea bioresources and developing engineering designs for offshore thermal energy-driven desalination plants.
India plans to send a manned submersible, developed by the Chennai-based National Institute of Ocean Technology (NIOT), up to a depth of 500 meters in the ocean later this year, and gradually explore the seabed at a depth of 6,000 meters next year.
The finance minister also allocated 1,329 crore for Mission Mausam, an Earth Sciences Ministry initiative to improve weather forecasting capabilities. The Ministry of Earth Sciences, which is steering the Deep Ocean Mission, got an allocation of around 3,650 crore rupees in the Union Budget, presented yesterday.
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