Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IITM) has launched a ‘DST Centre of Excellence (CoE). This has been launched in connection to Climate Change Impacts on Coastal Infrastructure and the Adaptation Strategies.
IITM launched it on April 15 in its campus. A per the reports, it is going to play a major role in helping all those communities who live in coastal regions of India and most of the time they have to face the impact of climate change.
The Centre of Excellence (CoE) is established by the Department of Science and Technology (DST) of the Government of India at IIT Madras campus under Indo-German Centre for Sustainability (IGCS) centre. The CoE was inaugurated by Prof. Bhaskar Ramamurthi, the Director of IIT Madras. The function was attended by Dr. Akhilesh Gupta, Head, SPLICE division, DST, many other eminent researchers and a group of faculty members from IIT Madras.
The new CoE is responsible to carry out research so that climate change can be predicted and a proper monitoring can be ensured for important coastal infrastructure like ports and major industries. Apart from this, this will also help in keeping a track of the impact that the climate change can have on coastal communities. The research will also be done in order to know related things about tropical cyclones and extreme rainfall. The research is focused on saving the coastal infrastructures in the long run which get damaged due to change in the weather.