Indian Navy Conducts Coastal Security Exercise ‘Matla Abhiyan’ in Kolkata

Indian Navy Conducts Coastal Security Exercise ‘Matla Abhiyan’ in Kolkata

• The Indian Navy launched a unique coastal security exercise named ‘Matla Abhiyan’ in Kolkata, West Bengal to spread awareness on coastal security from 29th January to 2nd February 2020.
• Under the exercise, two naval boats were flagged off to move along the the river Matla in the Sundarbans region up to Hemnagar.
• This is also the international trade protocol route between India and Bangladesh.
• During the exercise, the Navy interacted with the local community to make them aware of the coastal security and also carried out activity to understand the navigational complexities in the Sundarbans Delta.

Points to Remember:

1. Coastal security exercise ‘Matla Abhiyan’ was conducted in which city by Indian Navy?
2. Sundarbans Delta is in which state?
3. West Bengal CM? Mamata Banerjee
4. West Bengal Governor? Jagdeep Dhankhar