<span style="color: #222222;">Comptroller General of India (CAG), Girish Chandra Murmu said that India's blue economy could be the next GDP multiplier. He was speaking at a seminar on Blue Economy organised as part of the G20 and SAI Supreme Audit Institutions (SAIs) 20 in New Delhi today.</span> <br />''<br />''Mr. Murmu said that India's Exclusive Economic Zone of over two million square km has a bounty of living and non-living resources with significant recoverable resources such as crude oil and natural gas. <br />''<br />''He added that the Blue economy is intrinsically linked to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)14.  This includes the conservation and sustainable use of the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development.<br />''<br />''<span style="color: #222222;">Mr. Murmu noted that the UN has declared the decade 2021-2130 as the decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development. He added that the SAIs can make recommendations on how the government could direct their efforts and policies for the sustainable development of the Blue Economy of the nations.</span><br />