Department of Fisheries, Tamil Nadu Govt has pioneered with National Centre for Coastal Research (NCCR) to develop THOONDIL an android application that integrates modern science and technology to assist fisherman community. This app provides near real time information like weather forecast, potential fishing zone, high tide, cyclone alert etc. and addresses shore to shore needs of the Fishing community.
This application acts an effective decision support tool thereby saving innumerable lives in sea during Natural disasters.
This app reaches to fishing villages from Pulicat in Coromandal Coast to Neerody in West Coast all along the entire Tamil Nadu’s coastline of 1076 Kms.
This app can be downloaded from Google Play store.