National Centre For Polar And Ocean Research:
The National Centre for Polar and Ocean Research (NCPOR) is building a new ocean research vessel to explore the deep Indian Ocean for rare minerals and metals as part of India’s Deep Ocean Mission.
- National Centre for Polar and Ocean Research is an autonomous research instituteestablished in 1998.
- It is India’s premier R&D institution responsible for the country’s research activities in the Polar and Southern Ocean realms.
- It is tasked with planning and executing polar expeditions and scientific research in Antarctica, Arctic, Himalayas and the Southern Ocean.
- It is the nodal agency for planning, promoting, coordinating, and executing the entire gamut of polar and southern ocean scientific research in the country and the associated logistics activities.
- It also undertakes research on some of the country’s strategically vital projects like mapping of Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ), continental shelf margins and the Deep Ocean Mission.
- The Center maintains a Research Advisory Committee (RAC) to help guide and concentrate the research activities.
- It is located in Vasco da Gama, Goa, and was formerly known as the National Center for Antarctic and Ocean Research (NCAOR).
- Nodal Ministry: Ministry of Earth Sciences (MoES), Government of India.
