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SC Bose Aapda Prabandhan Puraskar 2025 to INCOIS
- 25 Jan 2025
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The Indian National Centre for Ocean Information Services (INCOIS) has been awarded the Subhash Chandra Bose Aapda Prabandhan Puraskar 2025 in the Institutional Category for its outstanding work in disaster management.
- It is awarded annually on 23rd January, Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose's birth anniversary, with Rs 51 lakh for institutions and Rs 5 lakh for individuals.
- About INCOIS: It was established in 1999 in Hyderabad, Telangana and specializes in ocean-related disaster management, particularly tsunami early warnings.
- It operates the Indian Tsunami Early Warning Centre (ITEWC), providing alerts within 10 minutes to India and 28 Indian Ocean countries.
- It is recognized by UNESCO as a Top Tsunami Service Provider.
- It functions under the Ministry of Earth Sciences (MoES) and a unit of the Earth System Science Organization (ESSO), New Delhi.
- It has developed Search and Rescue Aided Tool (SARAT) for locating individuals or objects lost at sea, and created the SynOPS visualization platform for real-time data integration.
- INCOIS is a permanent member of the Indian delegation to the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO.
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