Defence Minister Rajnath Singh inaugurates the Maritime Rescue Coordination Centre in Chennai on Sunday. DMK) MP Dayanidhi Maran and others look on.
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Defence Minister Rajnath Singh inaugurated a new Maritime Rescue Coordination Centre (MRCC) of the Coast Guard in Chennai on Sunday.
At the event, he also inaugurated two new Coast Guard units – the Regional Marine Pollution Response Centre (RMPRC) in Chennai and a Coast Guard Air Enclave in Puducherry – through video-conferencing.
The new MRCC would facilitate enhanced coordination for rescue of mariners and fishermen in distress at sea, a release said. It has been installed with the latest equipment for distress monitoring through terrestrial and satellite systems, and has advanced communication systems, it added.
It would also serve as the nerve centre for coordinating all maritime rescue operations on the east coast of India and beyond, ensuring the safety and well-being of fishermen and mariners, the release added.
The RMPRC, based at the Chennai Port, is the first-of-its-kind facility for coordinating response against marine pollution in the waters adjoining the coastal States in the Indian Ocean Region.
The Coast Guard Air Enclave in Puducherry would be equipped with Chetak and Advanced Light Helicopter Squadrons. Both these helicopters are indigenously built, and can carry out maritime patrol, search and rescue and other such missions from the land as well as Coast Guard ships patrolling at sea, it said. Finance Minister Thangam Thennarasu; MPs Dayanidhi Maran and Kalanidhi Veeraswamy; and other dignitaries were present on the occasion.
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