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Indian tsunami warning centre to turn regional provider

HYDERABAD: The round-the-clock Indian Tsunami Early Warning Centre will, in 2012, become a regional provider, providing alerts to all Indian Ocean Rim (IOR) countries.

As a prelude, a five-day meeting of experts from 17 countries will be held next week at the Indian National Centre for Ocean Information Services (INCOIS) here, which houses the Tsunami Early Warning Centre.

Speaking to reporters here on Friday, INCOIS director Satheesh C. Shenoi said the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission had suggested that the Indian Centre and those in Indonesia and Australia — countries which, too, had developed mature early warning systems for tsunamis — be regional providers for the IOR countries.

Dr. Shenoi signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Superintendent of Police, North & Middle Andaman, P. Karunakaran, for establishing a hotline between the INCOIS and the police control room at Port Blair.

Although the INCOIS was providing messages and alerts to the Andaman & Nicobar administration, the hotline was meant to make doubly sure that the information reached them, Dr. Shenoi said.

Earlier, addressing the INCOIS' first user-interaction workshop, P. Krishnaiah, Chief Executive, National Fisheries Development Board, said fishermen were a neglected group in terms of being provided alternative livelihood and mooted the idea of giving them the first right to utilise marine wealth.

Director, National Remote Sensing Centre, V. Jayaraman, said the models generated by the Indian Centre were probably better than those developed by the Pacific Tsunami Warning Centre.

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