India Maritime Security and Challenges They Face
The appointment of India's first National Maritime Security Coordinator (NMSC) demonstrates the country's commitment to addressing India’s security challenges and India’s Maritime Challenges . It implements a long-standing recommendation made by the Group of Ministers (GoM) in 2000 to establish an apex body for maritime affairs management. 1 The NMSC, which reports to the National Security Advisor (NSA), will help to streamline maritime governance and enable the maritime sector's development. The Mumbai serial blasts (1993) and Mumbai terror attacks (2008), which claimed over 250 and 175 lives, respectively, occurred due to India's maritime security and India’s martime challenges. More recently, on January 12, 2018, approximately 243 people left India on a fishing boat from Munambam harbour in Kerala in an illegal migration case. By noon, the Indian Coast Guard (ICG) had launched an intensive search operation involving ships, hovercraft, and aircraft. Despite its Coas