Ten years after "26/11", the Indian Navy commenced Exercise SEA VIGIL, the largest coastal defence exercise off the Indian coast.
About:
Location: Exercise SEA VIGIL, a first of its kind, is being undertaken along the entire 7516.6 km coastline and Exclusive Economic Zone of India.
Stakeholders: It is involving all the 13 coastal States and Union Territories along with all maritime stakeholders, including the fishing and coastal communities.
Objective: To holistically validate the efficacy of the measures taken since '26/11'.
Duration of exercise: 22-23 January 2019.
Salient Features:
The exercise is a build up towards the major theatre level tri-service exercise TROPEX [Theatre-level Readiness Operational Exercise] which Indian Navy conducts every two years. SEA VIGIL and TROPEX together will cover the entire maritime security.
The exercise will entail both seaward and shore-based monitoring.
Seaward monitoring during the exercise will entail patrolling off coast by the Indian Navy, Indian Coast Guard, supported by the State Marine Police.
Shore-based monitoring will entail enhanced vigil by the State Police along the coast.
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