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ENC Golden Jubilee seminar concludes
The Eastern Naval Command Golden Jubilee seminar with the theme ‘National Maritime Power - Concepts, Constituents and Catalysts’, concluded here on Wednesday. The two-day seminar was jointly hosted by ENC in partnership with the National Maritime Foundation and held at Samudrika Auditorium. Chief of Naval Staff Admiral Sunil Lanba was the chief guest for the inaugural session.
Visakhapatnam: The Eastern Naval Command Golden Jubilee seminar with the theme ‘National Maritime Power - Concepts, Constituents and Catalysts’, concluded here on Wednesday. The two-day seminar was jointly hosted by ENC in partnership with the National Maritime Foundation and held at Samudrika Auditorium. Chief of Naval Staff Admiral Sunil Lanba was the chief guest for the inaugural session.
The second day of the seminar was started with ‘Regional Maritime Dynamics’. The session was chaired by Vice-Admiral Satish Soni (retired). Additional director general VSR Murthy of the Indian Coast Guard deliberated upon issues such as transnational crimes, threats impinging on blue economy vision of India and approach towards marine environment protection.
Commander Prakash Gopal elaborated upon India’s imperatives in furthering constructive maritime engagement in the Indo–Pacific Region. This was followed by Captain SS Parmar, speaking on balance of power, concepts of power transition and freedom of navigation.
The proceedings of the seminar were summed up eloquently by Vice-Admiral Pradeep Chauhan (Retd), Director, National Maritime Foundation. The valedictory address was given by Admiral Arun Prakash (Retd), former Navy Chief, who brought out the issues and challenges in maritime domain and proposed a way ahead towards becoming a stronger maritime power.
The seminar had a total of 18 speakers from the academia and strategic studies, practitioners from the Indian Navy and Coast Guard, shipping and the scientific community. Prof Brahma Chellaney and Commodore Uday Bhaskar (Retd) provided an overview of the environment and set the stage for the two-day seminar.
The seminar saw a balanced mix of argument and debate, and resulted in animated discussions, providing a very comprehensive update and way ahead, not only to harness maritime power but to strengthen it in the current security environment.
