January 16 , 2021
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- Union Minister for Earth Sciences, Harsh Vardhan has launched Coastal Research Vehicle ‘Sagar Anveshika’ at the Chennai Port.
- The vehicle will be used to carry out environment indexing and bathymetric (mapping underwater features) in both coastal and offshore waters.
- It will be used for research purposes by the National Institute of Ocean Technology (NIOT) located in Chennai.
- It has been built by Titagarh Wagons, Kolkata, West Bengal.

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