Ministry of Earth Sciences (India)

Under the Deep Ocean Mission (DOM), two verticals entitled ‘Technological Advancements for Deep-Sea Mining and Crewed Submersibles’ and “Deep Ocean Survey & Exploration” focuses on the deep-sea exploration related activities. The deep seabed minerals exploration is done following signed…

Under the Deep Ocean Mission, development of technology and systems to harvest polymetallic nodules from depths of about 5500 m is taken up by the National Institute of Ocean Technology (NIOT) under the Ministry. IMD has fifteen (15) unmanned H-AWOS procured and installed at the following…

Goa, 24 September 2025 Ministry of Earth Science hosted the 8th Annual Contractors’ Meeting of the International Seabed Authority (ISA) which was locally organised by CSIR-National Institute of Oceanography (NIO), Goa, during 18-20 September, 2025. The event commenced on the 18th September…

India Becomes First Country to Hold Two PMS Exploration Contracts with the International Seabed Authority; Recognised as Pioneer Investor Deep Ocean Mission launched by PM Narendra Modi, which focuses on seabed mineral exploration, mining technology development, and strengthening India’s…

The referred matter is a statement made by Secretary General of ISA before media and press in an event during February 2023 at Gujarat Maritime Law University, Gandhinagar. Ministry of Earth Sciences (MoES) being the nodal agency for deep sea mineral exploration have two seabed mineral…

The Government of India launched the Deep Ocean Mission to be implemented by the Ministry of Earth Sciences. The Deep Ocean Mission encompasses six verticals, of which activities under verticals 1 and 4 aid the exploration of deep-sea polymetallic nodules (PMN) and polymetallic sulphides…

Dr. Jitendra Singh Highlights Sustainable Marine Practices India Reaffirms Global Leadership in Sustainable Seabed Exploration at ISA Trainee Ceremony In a move highlighting India’s commitment to sustainable ocean development, Union Minister of State (Independent Charge) for Science and…

Union Minister of State of Earth Sciences; Science and Technology; MoS PMO; Department of Personnel, Public Grievances, Pensions; Atomic Energy; and Space, Dr Jitendra Singh felicitated 21 trainees nominated by the International Seabed Authority (ISA) at a ceremony held at the Ministry of…

Significant developments have been made to improve the monitoring and forecasting of severe weather events through augmenting the observational network in the country that include the following since 2014: 39 Doppler Weather Radar (DWR) network in 2023 against 15 in 2014 1208 Automatic…

Deep Ocean Mission has been launched w.e.f. 07.09.2021, as a Central Sector Scheme of Ministry of Earth Sciences with the approval of the Cabinet. Samudrayaan is a project under the Deep Ocean Mission. Under the Samudrayaan project of Deep Ocean Mission, MATSYA 6000 mannedsubmersible design…