{"id":30313,"date":"2025-02-23T09:39:02","date_gmt":"2025-02-23T04:09:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=30313"},"modified":"2025-04-10T09:44:58","modified_gmt":"2025-04-10T04:14:58","slug":"bay-of-bengal-inter-governmental-organisation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/bay-of-bengal-inter-governmental-organisation\/","title":{"rendered":"Bay of Bengal Inter-Governmental Organisation"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Bay of Bengal Inter-Governmental Organisation Latest News<\/h2>\n<p>Recently, India assumed Chairmanship of Bay of Bengal (BOB) Inter-Governmental Organisation from Bangladesh at the 13th Governing Council Meeting at Mal\u00e9, Maldives.<\/p>\n<h2>About Bay of Bengal Inter-Governmental Organisation<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It was set <strong>up in 2003.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It is a <strong>unique regional fisheries body,<\/strong> specifically mandated to assist the member countries in increasing the livelihood opportunities and improving the quality of life of the small-scale\/ artisanal fisher folk in the Bay of Bengal region.<\/li>\n<li>The Organisation evolved from the erstwhile <strong>Bay of Bengal Programme of the Food and Agriculture Organization<\/strong> (FAO) of the United Nations (UN) founded in 1979.<\/li>\n<li>It has set international benchmarks in execution of programs and activities in the field of small-scale fisheries that has translated into measurable benefits for the member countries.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Member Countries:<\/strong> The current members of the Organisation are <strong>Bangladesh, India, Maldives and Sri Lanka <\/strong>while <strong>Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar<\/strong> and <strong>Thailand<\/strong> are <strong>cooperating non-contracting parties.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Objectives of Bay of Bengal Inter-Governmental Organisation<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>To increase <strong>awareness and knowledge<\/strong> of the needs, benefits and practices of <strong>marine fisheries management;<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Enhance skills through training and education; transfer appropriate technologies and techniques for development of small-scale fisheries; establish regional information networking; and promote women&#8217;s participation in marine fisheries value chain.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Bay of Bengal Inter-Governmental Organisation FAQs<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Q1:<\/strong> What is the Bay of Bengal Programme Inter Governmental Organization?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans:<\/strong> The Bay of Bengal Programme Inter-Governmental Organization (BOBP-IGO) is a regional fisheries advisory body established in 2003 to ensure long-term development and utilization of coastal fisheries resources in the Bay of Bengal.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q2:<\/strong> Who are the members of the Bay of Bengal initiative?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans:<\/strong> It includes five Member States from South Asia namely Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal and Sri Lanka, along with Myanmar and Thailand from Southeast Asia.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q3:<\/strong> What is the Food and Agriculture Organization?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans:<\/strong> The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) is a specialized agency of the United Nations leading international efforts to defeat hunger.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/pib.gov.in\/PressReleaseIframePage.aspx?PRID=2105308\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">PIB<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bay of Bengal Inter-Governmental Organisation is a unique regional fisheries body, specifically mandated to assist the member countries in increasing the livelihood opportunities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":30314,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-30313","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30313\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}