Largest coastal defence drill ‘Exercise Sea Vigil’

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To test its preparedness along the entire 7,516.6 km-long-coastline and exclusive economic zone of the country.
It aims to simultaneously activate the coastal security mechanism across all 13 coastal States and Union Territories,
This involves the evaluation of critical areas and processes, including inter-agency coordination, information sharing and technical surveillance. “Multi agency audit and identification of gaps, shortfalls and incorporation of lessons learnt into Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) are also the desired outcomes,”
The exercise is a build up towards the major theatre level tri-service exercise TROPEX [Theatre-level Readiness Operational Exercise] which Indian Navy conducts every two years.
The exercise is also being facilitated by the ministries of Defence, Home Affairs, Shipping, Petroleum and Natural Gas, Fisheries, Customs and state governments.