Coast Guard got more teeth after 26/11: official
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After 26/11 terror assault in Mumbai, the Indian Coast Guard is a a lot stronger pressure at the moment. Though the position may not have modified a lot, the pressure has tripled its capability since then. Be it on the property aspect, expertise or manpower, mentioned Additional Director General of Indian Coast Guard, Eastern Seaboard, V.S. Pathania.
Interacting with The Puucho, on the eve of the Indian Coast Guard Day, he mentioned from a modest starting on February 1, 1977, with simply seven ships, two small corvettes and 5 patrol boats leased from the Indian Navy, it at the moment has 156 ships, 62 plane and over 20,000 males and officers.
He indicated that by 2025, the goal was to have a pressure energy of no less than 200 ships and 100 plane.
Speaking concerning the fleet energy on the jap seaboard, which covers a distance of over 2,834 km of shoreline from West Bengal to Tamil Nadu, he mentioned there are about 9 excessive endurance versatile ships, one excessive endurance particular position vessel for preventing air pollution on sea, 21 water jet propelled quick interceptors and 13 excessive pace fast response vessels.
“This apart, we have about nine hovercraft, 10 Dornier surveillance aircraft and three helicopters,” he mentioned.
But in response to him, the game-changer might be induction of multi mission maritime plane and HAL developed AHL (Advanced Light Helicopter) within the pressure. The ALH will part out the ageing Chetaks, mentioned Mr. Pathania.
“We can have a number of the new air property deployed on the jap seaboard and we’re additionally anticipating no less than two new OPV (offshore patrol vessels) and one FPV (quick patrol vessel), shortly. According to him, ICG is the fourth greatest Coast Guard pressure on this planet at the moment.
Mr. Pathania additionally mentioned that underneath the phase-I of the CSS (chain of static sensors), 46 coastal radar stations have been arrange, and underneath Phase-II, 38 static radar stations and 4 cellular radar stations are being arrange. “On the eastern seaboard, we will have 17 radars in the second phase,” he mentioned.
He additionally mentioned that over 90% of the fishing boats have been color coded and common consciousness programme with the fishermen have been paying dividends each by way of intelligence gathering and managing search and rescue operations, in instances of disasters.
First PVSM
Mr. Pathania additionally mentioned that ICG was awarded the primary PVSM (Param Vishist Seva Medal), since its inception. It was awarded to the present Director General of Coast Guard Krishnaswamy Natarajan, for his environment friendly dealing with of MT New Diamond, the 3-lakh MT crude oil tanker that caught fireplace off Sri Lanka coast in November, final.
Explaining the position of ICG, he mentioned, “Though our jurisdiction of operation is limited to 2.01 million sq km of EEZ (exclusive economic zone) our search and rescue operation extends to over 4.6 million sq km.”
Mr. Pathania mentioned that incorporation of ‘preventive and measured response’ idea has ensured that more then 6,000 fishing boats and about 40,000 fishermen being escorted to the protection of harbour by the Coast Guard, throughout the 11 cyclones that hit the Indian coast, final 12 months.
