What is EEZ? Which mineral is mined beyond from the EEZ by india from the indian ocean.
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Explanation:
India, a traditionally maritime country with rich maritime heritage, has an Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) of about 2.37 million km2 wherein India enjoy the exclusive legal right to utilize all living and non-living resources. The project mainly focuses on mapping the entire EEZ of India using the state-of-the art technologies of Multibeam apart from systematic sediment sampling and its analysis. The entire EEZ have been divided into two areas viz. deep water areas (> 500 m water depth) and shallow water areas (< 500 m water depth).
This is a continuing programme of the Ministry spill over from the 10th plan and will be continued during the 12th Five Year Plan. By implementing the programme, a clear picture of our exclusive economic zone will emerge. The comprehensive detailed bathymetric map of the EEZ will be helpful to mariners, navigators, planners, fisheries and mineral resource, researchers and many more. This benefit would be enormous as the information on EEZ is essential for all round development of the coastal regions.
Systematic mapping of the Indian EEZ utilising state-of-the-art muitibeam bathymetric instruments was initiated during the XI Plan period, and to date,nearly 30% of the deep‐water regions of the EEZ beyond 500 M water depth has been mapped. Some of the significant observations include the presence of channel‐levée systems between Ninety east Ridge to its west and Andaman Trench in east. Two Seamounts off Lakshadweep, and pockmarks on the seabed off‐Goa. In addition to bathymetric observations, sampling of the seabed-subseabed at select locations has also been carried out and the analytical studies are in progress. Considering the large area of the Indian EEZ in excess of 2 million km2 and the need to extend the studies to the continental shelf areas beyond 200 M in view of India’s submission for an extended continental shelf to the United Nations Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf (CLCS), it is proposed to continue the bathymetric mapping and systematic sampling on a mission mode using a dedicated chartered oceanographic vessel during the XII Plan.