Citizens' Charter

Ministry of Earth Sciences was established in the year 2006 by bringing the meterological agencies and ocean development department under one umbrella considering the importance of ocean atmosphere process for understanding the variability of earth.

This charter is a declaration of MoES vision, mission, values, and standards and commitment to act in manner to achieve excellence for sustainable development and use of science and technology for the exploaration and exploitation of vast marine resource for the socio-economic benefit of the society by taking into account the global developments in the field of marine environment.

Vision

The vision of MoES is to emerge as a knowledge and information technology enterprise for the Earth System Science (atomphere, hydrosphere, cryoshphere and geosphere) realm for the Indian subcontinet and ocean.

Mission

To cover wide range of activities contributing to various social benefits in the areas of weather(general), weather advisiory specific to agriculture, shipping, sports, monsoon, disasters (cyclone,earthquake,tsunami,sea level rise),living and non-living resourses (fishery advisiories, poly-metallic nodules, gas hydrates etc.),coastal and marine ecosystem,climate change and providing drinking water to the population and Island of Lakshdeep UT through use ocean science and technology.

The front line areas of MoES with the immense potential for the benfit of the human kind and promotion of marine industry are:

• To provide services in the areas of research infrastructure and genration of human resources , pouplarization of Earth System Sciences (atmosphere, hydrosphere, cryosphere and geosphere) mission to establish as information network for the scientific community.

• To encourage dissemination of information in Ocean sector regarding work being performed by the department and its autonomous bodies to stakeholders and promote establishment of an ocean related information system.

• To bring about desired level of transparency in the management of funds received by the autonomous bodies by way of grants and also to make public the work done by the bodies out of such grants.

• To tune system with a view to encourage formulation of research and development schemes in the ocean sector in a transparent manner, create capacity building and promote human resource development by encouraging research.

• To process research proposal for schemes on basic research, application areas and manpower development programmes for Ocean Sciences in a transparent and time-bound manner.

• To extend support to seminars, symposia, conferences etc. and process application for grants to organize seminars / symposium / conference in a transparent and time-bound manner.

• To create awareness about ocean sector by participation in educational programmes, exhibitions and trade fairs and through partnership with NGOs in order to appreciate the role of the ocean system both as a provider of living and non-living resources, and as major contributor to earth's climate and ecological balance.