India To Spend Rs1,200 Crore To Defend Shoreline

The scheme will also include a detailed study to estimate how much of India will be submerged by the rise in sea-levels caused by global warming.

"Currently, we only know that the sea water is likely to rise by around half a metre in the next fifty years," says Dr A Senthil Vel, National Project Director for Society of Integrated Coasal Management.

He points out that India at present does not have the required data, including elevation levels on the sea-coast, to make a reliable estimate of how much land the sea-level rise will submerge. Read the full report here.

Source: by Sreejiraj Eluvangal, DNA, New Delhi.