Navy pavilion unveiled at IIM-K business museum
The Hindu
Vice Admiral Anil Kumar Chawla, Flag Officer Commanding-in-Chief, Southern Naval Command, unveiled a pavilion dedicated to the Indian Navy at the Indian Business Museum of the Indian Institute of Mana
Vice Admiral Anil Kumar Chawla, Flag Officer Commanding-in-Chief, Southern Naval Command, unveiled a pavilion dedicated to the Indian Navy at the Indian Business Museum of the Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode (IIM-K) here on Thursday.
A news release said here that the Indian Navy pavilion is the first pavilion dedicated to the country’s mighty defence forces and has been set up by the Indian Naval Academy, Ezhimala. It displays a replica of the indigenous ‘Anti Submarine Warfare Corvette’ built by the Garden Research Shipbuilders and Engineers Ltd (GRSE), under the Ministry of Defence.
The corvette boasts of 90% indigenous content with a tonnage of 3,250 tonnes and till date GRSE has delivered three such warships to the Indian Navy. Besides this, the visual display units will also showcase videos of the ‘Life in Indian Navy’, the rigorous training modules of the world’s seventh largest Navy along with a dedicated video showing Indian Navy’s push for self-reliance through indigenisation.