Prez arrives in Vizag for Naval Fleet review
Visakhapatnam Feb 20 PTI President Ram Nath Kovind arrived in the port city Visakhapatnam on Sunday on a three-day visit to the Eastern Naval Command where he will conduct the Presidents Fleet Review-22 in Bay of Bengal on February 21Andhra Pradesh Governor Biswabhusan Harichandan Chief Minister Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy Flag Officer Commanding-in-Chief of ENC Vice-Admiral Biswajit Dasgupta and others extended a warm welcome to the President at the Naval Airbase INS Dega hereCommemorating the Aazadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav Indian Navy 75 years in Service of the Nation has been made the theme of PFR-22As the Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces every President of India reviews the Indian Naval Fleet once during his five-year and PFR-22 will be the 12th editionThe PFR is aimed at assuring the country of the Indian Navys preparedness high morale and disciplineThis is the second time that Visakhapatnam has been hosting the PFR the first being in the year 2006 by the then President of India A P J Abdul KalamIn 2016 the then President Pranab Mukherjee inspected the International Fleet Review in Visakhapatnam popularly called the City of Destiny As part of PFR-22 Kovind will review two fleets of the Navy including warships and of Coast Guard Shipping Corporation of India and Ministry of Earth Sciences comprising 60 ships and submarines manned by over 10000 personnel Also 50 aircraft will be part of the event wherein they will conduct a fly-pastThe President will embark an indigenously-built Naval offshore patrol vessel INS Sumitra specially-designated as the Presidential Yacht and review all participating ships anchored in a formation off the Visakhapatnam coast in four precise columns by steaming past them according to a Navy release All aircraft in operation under the aviation wing of the Indian Navy will participate in the fly-past that will include latest acquisitions like Mikoyan MiG-29K Boeing P-8I Neptune and the HAL Dhruv MKIIIAfter the flypast the Marine Commandos Marcos will present a demonstration of an anti-terrorist operation a search-and-rescue drill and a steam-past by a few submarines the Navy saidThe President will also release a specially-designed First Day Cover and a Commemorative Stamp on the occasion PTI DBV ROH ROH
Visakhapatnam Feb 20 PTI President Ram Nath Kovind arrived in the port city Visakhapatnam on Sunday on a three-day visit to the Eastern Naval Command where he will conduct the Presidents Fleet Review-22 in Bay of Bengal on February 21Andhra Pradesh Governor Biswabhusan Harichandan Chief Minister Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy Flag Officer Commanding-in-Chief of ENC Vice-Admiral Biswajit Dasgupta and others extended a warm welcome to the President at the Naval Airbase INS Dega hereCommemorating the Aazadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav Indian Navy 75 years in Service of the Nation has been made the theme of PFR-22As the Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces every President of India reviews the Indian Naval Fleet once during his five-year and PFR-22 will be the 12th editionThe PFR is aimed at assuring the country of the Indian Navys preparedness high morale and disciplineThis is the second time that Visakhapatnam has been hosting the PFR the first being in the year 2006 by the then President of India A P J Abdul KalamIn 2016 the then President Pranab Mukherjee inspected the International Fleet Review in Visakhapatnam popularly called the City of Destiny As part of PFR-22 Kovind will review two fleets of the Navy including warships and of Coast Guard Shipping Corporation of India and Ministry of Earth Sciences comprising 60 ships and submarines manned by over 10000 personnel Also 50 aircraft will be part of the event wherein they will conduct a fly-pastThe President will embark an indigenously-built Naval offshore patrol vessel INS Sumitra specially-designated as the Presidential Yacht and review all participating ships anchored in a formation off the Visakhapatnam coast in four precise columns by steaming past them according to a Navy release All aircraft in operation under the aviation wing of the Indian Navy will participate in the fly-past that will include latest acquisitions like Mikoyan MiG-29K Boeing P-8I Neptune and the HAL Dhruv MKIIIAfter the flypast the Marine Commandos Marcos will present a demonstration of an anti-terrorist operation a search-and-rescue drill and a steam-past by a few submarines the Navy saidThe President will also release a specially-designed First Day Cover and a Commemorative Stamp on the occasion PTI DBV ROH ROH
