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Module - IV Indian Navy

Armed Forces Today
 Overseas deployments
 Flag showing/Port visits- Indian naval ships going on visit abroad.

 Hosting foreign warship visiting India.
 Technical and logistics assistance to foreign ships.

 Foreign training - training naval personnel of friendly foreign countries.
Note
 Maritime Patrols
 Bilateral/ Multilateral Exercises

 Non Combat Evacuation

 Peace enforcement, peace making, peace keeping and peace building as per
requests from United Nations.
14.2.3 Constabulary

The increasing incidence of maritime crime has brought into sharp focus the constabulary

role that navies have to perform. In the constabulary role, forces are employed to
enforce law of the land or to implement a rule and law of the seas, established by an
international mandate. With the establishment of the Indian Coast Guards in February

1978, law enforcement aspects of the constabulary role within the Maritime Zones of
India (MZI) have been transferred to the Coast Guard. Constabulary tasks beyond
the MZI are vested with the Indian Navy.

 Counter infiltration

 Anti-Piracy
 Anti-Poaching

 Anti-Trafficking

14.2.4 Benign Role

Examples of benign tasks include humanitarian aid, disaster relief, Search and Rescue
(SAR), ordnance disposal, diving assistance, salvage operations, Hydrographic
surveys, etc. Some of the taskes envisaged are:-

 Provision of Relief Material and Supplies
 Medical assistance

 Diving assistance

 Hydrographic assistance, etc.

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