Centre Director, NCAOR attended the COMNAP & SCAR meeting at Tokyo, Japan during 9 – 22 July 2000. SCAR and COMNAP group of specialists met and discussed the Antarctic Data Management. The SCAR sub-committee also discussed the biology of Antarctic birds. The discovery of Vostak Lake with an area around 14000 km2 beneath the ice sheet of approximate thickness of 3500 km has given opportunity to scientists to study its biology & past climate/environment and to develop robotic technology for sampling. The proposed launch of ICE SAT by NASA in 2001 & CRYOSAT by Germany through ESA indicates the importance being given to polar research by the international community. Several International programmes have been initiated covering wide spectrum of scientific disciplines.