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The government is delineating the outer limits of the continental shelf to submit India's claim in accordance with the provisions of the United Nations Conventions on the Law of the Seas, highly placed sources in the ministry of ocean development told rediff.com
The sources said that once the UN accepted the claim, the ministry would take up the work of exploring resources.
So far, they said, the government has not entered into any agreement with multinational companies to explore the continental shelf or any part of the ocean.
But they admitted that an agreement between the National Centre for Antarctic and Ocean Research, Goa, an autonomous institute under the department of ocean development, and the Laboratory of Regional Geodynamics, a company registered in the United Kingdom, is being finalised to undertake the marine geophysical survey for delineation of the continental shelf.
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