Andaman and Nicobar Command Visited BU
Vice-Admiral Vijay Shankar handing over a memento to Vice-Chancellor G. Thiruvasagam during a visit to Bharathiar University in Coimbatore on Friday. Vice-Admiral Vijay Shankar, Commander-in-Chief, Andaman and Nicobar Command, has expressed his interest in developing ocean resource mining through satellite remote sensing for better utilisation of ocean resources and to prevent illegal exploitation.
According to Vice-Chancellor G. Thiruvasagam, the Vice-Admiral who visited Bharathiar University on Friday, discussed with the university officials a strategic plan to handle human response to natural disasters, particularly in the East Coast of India, including Andaman and Nicobar Islands. A team of experts from the university would visit the Islands under the chairmanship of the Vice-Chancellor to explore the objectives further. Once the objectives were firmed up, a memorandum of understanding to this effect would be signed.
