Question

The EEZ (Exclusive Economic zone) of India is up to-
A. 12 miles
B. 200 nautical miles
C. 140 km
D. None of these

Answer 1

Hint:It’s an ocean zone recommended by the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea for which a state has exceptional rights with respect to the investigation and utilization of marine assets. It is also considered that the nationals of the nation under whose influence the Zone falls.

Complete answer:
Biologically these islands can't be treated in separation. As a rule, it comprises land, tidal ponds, coral and regional waters and select financial zones (EEZ) and ocean. The land region of the islands is just 32 km2. The length of the coastline of the UT of Lakshadweep is 132 km. Be that as it may, it has an exceptionally enormous tidal pond region of 4200 km2, and the regional waters territory is assessed as 20,000 km2.
According to the global settlement, the selected financial zone is up to 4,00,000 km2. India has an Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) of about 2.37 million sq.km.
12 miles is not correct as in 19km is nowhere near to 2.37 million sq. km. Option (A) is not correct.
It is 370 km when the option says for 200 NMI. Thus, Option(B) is not correct.
140km is also not right as the zone of India is up to 2.37 sq. km. Thus, Option (C) is not the correct answer.

Hence the correct answer is option D.

Note:1) After numerous long stretches of global debates and compromise endeavours, the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) presented the idea of an Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ).
2) It joined the essential mechanical progressions empowering the remote ocean investigation and the extraction of characteristic assets from the seabed.