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V. Admiral G.M. Hiranandani Memorial Rolling Trophy 2020 declared

May 15, 2020
V. Admiral G.M. Hiranandani Memorial Rolling Trophy 2020
  • Lieutenant Commander Akshay Kumar was honored with the Vice-Admiral G.M. Hiranandani Memorial Rolling Trophy for the year 2020. The award ceremony was organized at the Maritime Warfare Centre, Kochi, Kerala.

“Mission Sagar” begun by India to serve island nations in EIO

May 10, 2020
Mission Sagar
  • “Mission Sagar” has been started by the Government of India to provide support to Eastern Indian Ocean Region Nations.
  • “Indian Naval Ship Kesari has departed for Maldives, Mauritius, Seychelles, Madagascar, and Comoros, to supply Food Items, COVID related Medicines including HCQ Tablets and Special Ayurvedic Medicines.

Indian Navy starts ‘Operation Samudra Setu’ to repatriate Indians from overseas

May 6, 2020
Indian Navy
  • The Indian Navy on 5TH May started ‘Operation Samudra Setu’ (meaning ‘Sea Bridge’), as a part of national effort to repatriate Indian citizens from overseas amid lockdown. 
  • Indian Naval Ships Jalashwa and Magar are currently en route to the port of Male in the Maldives to begin evacuation operations from May 8 as part of Phase-1.

Indian Navy established “Air Evacuation Pod” for Covid-19 patients

April 20, 2020
Indian Navy formed “Air Evacuation Pod” for Covid-19 patients
  • The Indian Navy’s Naval Aircraft Yard (Kochi) has formed “Air Evacuation Pod (AEP)” for the safe evacuation of COVID-19 patients from remote areas.
  • The pod is formed up of aluminum, nitrile rubber and perspex. It weighs only 32 kg and has incurred a manufacturing cost of Rs 50,000 which is only 0.1 percent of the cost of an imported equivalent (Rs 59 lakh).

SC clears permanent commission for women in Indian Navy

March 19, 2020
Women in Indian Navy
  • The Supreme court of India cleared permanent commission for women officers in the Indian Navy. A bench headed by Justice D Y Chandrachud said, there cannot be any excuses for not providing gender equality in the armed forces.
  • The court was contrary to the Centre’s policy of 1991 and 1998 which lifted the statutory bar on the induction of women officers in the Navy.
  • It also allows pension benefits to women officers who have retired and were not granted permanent commission.

Indian Navy installs Quarantine Facility at Visakhapatnam

March 19, 2020
Indian Navy installs Quarantine Facility at Visakhapatnam
  • Indian Navy has established a Quarantine Camp at INS Vishwakarma in Eastern Naval Command (ENC) for Indian nationals being evacuated from COVID-19 affected countries.
  • The Quarantine Camp has the capacity to accommodate nearly 200 personnel with all appropriate facilities.
  • Indian nationals being evacuated from COVID-19 affected countries will be closely monitored by a team of naval personnel and medical professionals of ENC.

Navy to recieve third Scorpene submarine in December

February 6, 2020
Scorpene submarine

The third Scorpene submarine, Karanj, will be delivered to the Indian Navy by December and all six submarine deliveries would be completed by 2023

Navy organizes coastal security exercise ‘Matla Abhiyaan’

February 4, 2020
Indian Navy

The Indian Navy organized a five-day coastal security exercise, ‘Matla Abhiyaan’ in Matla River, with personnel of two naval boats.

India send naval ship INS Airavat with relief supplies to cyclone-hit Madagascar

February 3, 2020
INS Airavat

Indian Navy launched operation Vanilla to send relief supplies to cyclone-hit Madagascar using its naval ship INS Airavat. It is to provide humanitarian assistance and disaster relief at Madagascar.

Anti-Submarine warfare corvette INS Kavaratti to be delivered to Indian Navy

January 28, 2020

Defence PSU Garden Reach Shipbuilders and Engineers (GRSE) is set to deliver anti-submarine warfare stealth corvette INS Kavaratti to the Indian Navy. INS Kavaratti is 104th warship constructed by GRSE. Kavaratti is the last of the four Anti-Submarine Warfare (ASW) stealth corvettes built by the GRSE for the Indian Navy under Project P28.

Under Project P28, ASW stealth Corvettes delivered to Indian Navy are ‘INS Kamorta’ in July 2014, ‘INS Kadmatt’ in November 2015 and ‘INS Kiltan’ in October 2017.All these four corvettes are named after islands of Lakshadweep and Arabian Sea. Five warships have been delivered to Indian Navy by Defence PSU between March 2019 to December 2019