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Tuesday, December 23, 2014

Ahead of New Year, patrolling intensified on Goa coast

"In the run up to the New Year, The Indian Coast Guard, Navy and coastal security police have intensified patrolling on and off the Goa coast," Coast Guard Deputy
Inspector General Manoj Badkaar said on Tuesday.
   
There is deployment off the coast. Also, bigger ships of Indian Navy are patrolling the western coast. These ships have come from Mumbai and Cochin, he said on the sidelines of the exercise to review the security preparedness.
   
The Coast Guard officials took state tourism minister Dilip Parulekar for a review in the military Hovercraft, which is capable of travelling over land, water, mud or ice and other surfaces.
   
Badkaar assured that the coast is adequately secured by the agencies.
   
The Coast Guard officials, who met state government representatives today, requested for land in Goa to set up base to station the Hovercraft.
   
There are 7 to 8 Hovercraft on the western coast attached to the Indian Coast Guard, Badkaar said.

Source: Hindi News and Newspaper

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