Question: Who has been appointed as India’s first national maritime security coordinator?
a) G Ashok Kumar
b) R. Hari Kumar.
c) Satish Namdeo Ghormade
d) None of these
Answer: (a)
Related Facts:-
- Retired Vice Admiral, G Ashok Kumar has been appointed as India’s first national maritime security coordinator by the government.
- The government of India has taken the decisive move to ensure reliability on security and its objective to strengthen the country’s maritime security.
- The NMSC will be working with coordination with the National Security Council Secretariat which is headed by NSA Ajit Doval.
- The main task will be given to NMSC to make coordination among the Indian Navy and the Coast Guard.
- Other security agencies those tangled in coastal and maritime security and 13 coastal states and Union Territories, will also be part of this coordination.
- It should be noted that maritime security of the country was challenged during the 26/11 Mumbai terror attack in November 2008.
- 14 years back when a group of sea-borne terrorists struck at the heart of the country’s financial capital.
By – Rajesh Tripathi