First Rimes Ministerial Conference held in New Delhi

•  Regional Integrated Multi-Hazard Early Warning System (RIMES) came in to existence to establish a tsunami early warning system in a multi-hazard framework for Southeast Asia and the Indian Ocean.
• It is an international and intergovernmental institution owned by the member countries.
• ,It consists of Afghanistan, Armenia, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Cambodia, Comoros, India, Kenya, Lao PDR, Maldives, Mauritius, Mongolia, Mozambique, Myanmar, Nepal, Philippines, Papua New Guinea, Seychelles, Sri Lanka, Tanzania and Uzbekistan.
  
  The objective of the meet was to build and sustain RIMES institutional and core operational activities through voluntary country contributions and mobilize financial support for implementation of the targeted activities of the RIMES Master Plan.
  India is working in collaboration with RIMES for its institutional development and providing resources for RIMES to meet the needs and demands of Member States.
  India expressed its desire to share its expertise to RIMES Member Countries in the following areas:
  
  • Expertise of India in building agro-meteorological advisory services to minimize the impact of adverse weather conditions on food production.
  
  • Fishing zone advisory system for the benefit of the coastal fishermen about fish abundance locations along with local weather conditions and sea state.
  
  • The totally indigenous and environmental friendly Low Temperature Thermal Desalination (LTTD) technology for conversion of sea water into potable safe drinking water.
  
  • Various satellite based multi-sensor payload based products over the data sparse regions of Indian Ocean, Arabian Sea and Bay of Bengal for enhancing the quality of meteorological and oceanic services rendered to various sectors of the economy.
  
  • Providing satellite derived products for real time monitoring of adverse weather conditions.