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Indian Coast Guard (ICG) Director-General Paramesh Sivamani inaugurated the 27th variation of the National Oil Spill Disaster Contingency Plan gathering and the 10th National Pollution Response Exercise (NATPOLREX-X) present connected Sunday (October 5, 2025). The two-day lawsuit includes an water workout disconnected the Chennai seashore connected Monday (October 6, 2025).
“The NATPOLREX-X workout is simply a demonstrated committedness of the ICG to guarantee that each the determination partners, affable overseas countries, and the Indo-Pacfic are good prepared and geared to conscionable immoderate contingency which mightiness originate owed to the spillage of lipid astatine sea. The Coast Guard takes large pridefulness successful ensuring that the maritime frontiers and our seas and oceans stay cleanable for aboriginal generations to bask the oceans,” said Mr. Sivamani.
“The magnitude of immoderate lipid spill lawsuit whether wrong our waters oregon beyond, demands swift, coordinated and decisive action. This is not the work of 1 federation unsocial but a corporate imperative. NATPOLREX stands arsenic a surviving illustration of this philosophy,” helium added.
The gathering saw information from 40 overseas observers and much than 100 nationalist delegates from assorted Ministries, State and Central agencies, ports, and lipid handling organisations. The New Mangalore Port Authority got the Samudri Paryavaran Sanrakshan Trophy, portion ONGC (Western Offshore) was honoured with the Tel Udyog Samudri Paryavaran Sanrakshan Trophy for their biology extortion efforts.
Discussions centred connected strengthening lipid spill effect readiness with an accent connected accrued coordination and adoption of planetary champion practices. The Coast Guard volition besides show its preparedness done a unrecorded workout featuring ships, craft configured for maritime contamination power and different contamination effect assets.
