NIOT to take up climate resilient protection measures in coastal Odisha
Bhubaneswar, Aug 10 : National Institute of Ocean Technology, (NIOT) Chennai will undertake climate resilient protection measures to save the life and property of people of coastal Odisha from natural disasters.
An MoU in this regard was signed on Wednesday between NIOT and Odisha government
Engineer in Chief Water Resources Department Bijoy Kumar Mishra and Dr G.A.Ramdass, Director, NIOT signed the MoU in presence of Water Resources Minister Tukuni Sahu.
NIOT under the Ministry of Earth Sciences, Govt. of India is a premier Institute in the country specializing in the field of Ocean Engineering and Coast-line protection.
Addressing the occasion, Sahu said the MoU was signed for the next 5 years to save the life and property of people in coastal areas with the protection of sea embankments.
Water Resources department Additional Chief Secretary Anu Garg said as per the agreement NIOT will provide the technical guidance, design & drawing of climate resilient coastal protection measures.
It will also work for saline embankments, assisting the supervision, training and capacity building of engineers.
The inhabitants of six coastal districts of the State —Balasore, Bhadrak, Kendrapara, Jagatsinghpur, Puri and Ganjam will be benefited from it, Garg said, adding this shall be a milestone in Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) in the coastal areas of the State.
Odisha has a vast coastline of about 480 km length and the coastal area is exposed to natural disasters.
Cyclones cause high tidal surges with very high wind speed, resulting in loss of lives and properties.
The government has planned to take up climate-resilient coastal protection measures, raising and strengthening of saline embankments using the latest technology available in the country as a permanent and sustainable solution.
