{"id":38944,"date":"2024-01-06T04:46:59","date_gmt":"2024-01-05T23:16:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=38944"},"modified":"2025-04-24T00:02:20","modified_gmt":"2025-04-23T18:32:20","slug":"prithvi-scheme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/prithvi-scheme\/","title":{"rendered":"PRITHvi VIgyan (PRITHVI) Scheme: Initiative for Ease of Research in Earth Sciences"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>What\u2019s in Today\u2019s Article?<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Why in News?<\/li>\n<li>What is the PRITHvi VIgyan (PRITHVI) Scheme?<\/li>\n<li>Significance of the PRITHVI Scheme<\/li>\n<li>Role Played by the MoES in Understanding Earth System Science<\/li>\n<li>Institutes Associated with MoES and their Role in Implementing PRITHVI Scheme<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Why in News?<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The Union Cabinet has approved an initiative &#8211; PRITHvi VIgyan (PRITHVI).<\/li>\n<li>This initiative will give the government flexibility to pursue research and use funds allocated to 5 different sub-schemes related to earth sciences over a 5-year period.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>What is the PRITHvi VIgyan (PRITHVI) Scheme?<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is an overarching scheme of the Ministry of Earth Sciences (MoES), for implementation during the period from 2021-26 at an overall cost of Rs. 4,797 crores.<\/li>\n<li>The major objectives of the Scheme are:\n<ul>\n<li>Augmentation and sustenance of long-term observations of the atmosphere, ocean, geosphere, cryosphere and solid earth to record the vital signs of the Earth System and change.<\/li>\n<li>Development of modelling systems for understanding and predicting weather, ocean and climate hazards and understanding the science of climate change.<\/li>\n<li>Exploration of polar and high seas regions of the Earth towards discovery of new phenomena and resources.<\/li>\n<li>Development of technology for exploration and sustainable harnessing of oceanic resources for societal applications.<\/li>\n<li>Translation of knowledge and insights from Earth systems science into services for societal, environmental and economic benefit.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>The Scheme encompasses 5 ongoing sub-schemes namely &#8211;\n<ul>\n<li>Atmosphere &amp; Climate Research-Modelling Observing Systems &amp; Services (ACROSS),<\/li>\n<li>Ocean Services, Modelling Application, Resources and Technology (O-SMART),<\/li>\n<li>Polar Science and Cryosphere Research (PACER),<\/li>\n<li>Seismology and Geosciences (SAGE) and<\/li>\n<li>Research, Education, Training and Outreach (REACHOUT).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Significance of the PRITHVI Scheme<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Earth System Sciences deal with all the 5 components of the earth system: atmosphere, hydrosphere, geosphere, cryosphere, and biosphere and their complex interactions.<\/li>\n<li>The overarching scheme of PRITHVI will holistically address all the five components (looking at them as one unit) of the earth system &#8211;\n<ul>\n<li>To improve the understating of the Earth System Sciences and<\/li>\n<li>To provide reliable services for the country.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>It will help in taking up cross-disciplinary projects and even use funds allocated for the separate verticals together. Thus, it will also facilitate ease of doing research.<\/li>\n<li>These integrated R&amp;D efforts will help in addressing the grand challenges of weather and climate, ocean, cryosphere, seismological science and services.<\/li>\n<li>It will also help in exploring the living and non-living resources for their sustainable harnessing.<\/li>\n<li>It will allow the Ministry to award research projects to overseas institutes.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Role Played by the MoES in Understanding Earth System Science<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>MoES holistically addresses all the aspects relating to the Earth System Science.<\/li>\n<li>It is mandated &#8211;\n<ul>\n<li>To translate Science to Services for the Society in providing services for weather, climate, ocean and coastal state, hydrology, seismology, and natural hazards;<\/li>\n<li>To explore and harness marine living and non-living resources in a sustainable manner for the country and<\/li>\n<li>To explore the three poles of the Earth (Arctic, Antarctic and Himalayas).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>These services include &#8211;\n<ul>\n<li>Weather forecasts (both on land and in the Oceans) and<\/li>\n<li>Warnings for various natural disasters like tropical cyclones, storm surge, floods, heat waves, thunderstorm and lightning; alerts for Tsunamis and monitoring of earthquakes, etc.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>The services provided by the Ministry are being effectively used by different agencies and state governments for saving human lives and minimising damages to the properties due to natural disasters.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Institutes Associated with MoES and their Role in Implementing PRITHVI Scheme<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The research &amp; development and operational (services) activities of MoES are carried out by 10 Institutes of MoES, viz.\n<ul>\n<li>India Meteorological Department (IMD),<\/li>\n<li>National Centre for Medium Range Weather Forecasting (NCMRWF),<\/li>\n<li>Centre for Marine Living Resources and Ecology (CMLRE),<\/li>\n<li>National Centre for Coastal Research (NCCR),<\/li>\n<li>National Centre for Seismology (NCS),<\/li>\n<li>National Institute of Ocean Technology (NIOT),<\/li>\n<li>Indian National Centre for Ocean Information Service (INCOIS), Hyderabad,<\/li>\n<li>National Centre for Polar and Ocean Research (NCPOR), Goa,<\/li>\n<li>Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology (IITM), Pune and<\/li>\n<li>National Centre for Earth Science Studies (NCESS).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>A fleet of oceanographic and coastal research vessels of the Ministry will provide required research support for the scheme.<\/li>\n<li>Various components of PRITHVI scheme are interdependent and are carried out in an integrated manner through combined efforts of the concerned Institutes under MoES.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What is the Atmosphere &amp; Climate Research-Modelling Observing Systems &amp; Services (ACROSS) Scheme?<\/h3>\n<p>The ACROSS umbrella scheme is a central sector scheme, which pertains to the atmospheric science programs of the Ministry of Earth Sciences (MoES) and addresses different aspects of weather and climate services.<\/p>\n<h3>Q2) What do you mean by cryosphere?<\/h3>\n<p>The cryosphere contains the frozen parts of the planet. It includes snow and ice on land, ice caps, glaciers, permafrost, and sea ice. This sphere helps maintain Earth&#8217;s climate by reflecting incoming solar radiation back into space.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/cities\/delhi\/cabinet-clears-prithvi-initiative-for-ease-of-research-in-earth-sciences-9097352\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Cabinet clears PRITHVI initiative for ease of research in earth sciences<\/u><\/a><u> | <\/u><a href=\"https:\/\/pib.gov.in\/PressReleaseIframePage.aspx?PRID=1993366\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>PIB<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The overarching scheme of PRITHVI will holistically address all the five components of the earth system to facilitate ease of doing research<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":38945,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-38944","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-mains-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38944","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=38944"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38944\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}