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| Thursday, 30 December 2004 |
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India to spend 27 million dollars on tsunami warning systems NEW DELHI, Wednesday (AFP) India will install systems to detect tsunamis at the cost of more than 27 million dollars, a government minister said Wednesday, after giant waves killed more than 70,000 people when they suddenly struck several Asian countries at the weekend. India will install the Deep Ocean Assessment and Reporting System (DOARS) and a software programme to locate tidal formations from undersea disturbances due to seismic changes, junior science and technology minister Kapil Sibal said. New Delhi will also approach the Pacific Tsunami Warning Centre and countries as such Indonesia, Thailand and Myanmar to cooperate, he told reporters. "Tsunami was last heard of in 1883. Since then there has been no official record of this monster wave affecting the Indian coast," Sibal said. Sibal said 10 to 12 DOARS would be linked to data buoys already in the ocean. The DOARS will be placed at a depth of six kilometres (3.72 miles) under the Indian Ocean and will have the capacity to detect the slightest changes in the movement of water, he said. |
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