{"id":92241,"date":"2021-03-04T17:33:06","date_gmt":"2021-03-04T12:03:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=92241"},"modified":"2021-03-04T17:33:06","modified_gmt":"2021-03-04T12:03:06","slug":"india-launches-mercantile-marine-domain-awareness-centremmdac","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/india-launches-mercantile-marine-domain-awareness-centremmdac\/","title":{"rendered":"India launches Mercantile Marine Domain Awareness Centre(MMDAC)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>What is the News?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The government of India has launched Sagar-Manthan: Mercantile Marine Domain Awareness Centre(MMDAC). It is a real-time vessel tracking and seafarers\u2019 help system.<\/p>\n<p><strong>About Sagar-Manthan-MMDAC:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a Maritime information system. Thus, it will enhance maritime safety, search and rescue capabilities, security, and marine environment protection.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Functions:<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>It has a real-time vessel tracking feature that can help seafarers and fishermen in times of need.<\/li>\n<li>Apart from tracking Indian vessels globally, it can also track foreign vessels within 1,000-km of India\u2019s coastline.<\/li>\n<li>It can also organize help for other countries in case of an emergency.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Operated by: <\/strong>It will be operated by the Director-General of Shipping.<\/li>\n<li><strong>India will be sharing<\/strong> this information system with Sri Lanka and the Maldives.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindubusinessline.com\/economy\/logistics\/india-launches-real-time-vessel-tracking-and-seafarers-help-system\/article33970821.ece\"><strong>Hindu Businessline<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/polity-and-governance-news\/constitutional-non-constitutional-bodies-news\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is the News? The government of India has launched Sagar-Manthan: Mercantile Marine Domain Awareness Centre(MMDAC). It is a real-time vessel tracking and seafarers\u2019 help system. About Sagar-Manthan-MMDAC: It is a Maritime information system. Thus, it will enhance maritime safety, search and rescue capabilities, security, and marine environment protection. Functions: It has a real-time vessel&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/india-launches-mercantile-marine-domain-awareness-centremmdac\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">India launches Mercantile Marine Domain Awareness Centre(MMDAC)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-public","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704863348},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92241\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}