High Commissioner Gopal Bagle on Sunday formally handed over training aids to the Naval and Maritime Academy (NMA) Trincomalee in Sri Lanka Navy Commander Eastern Naval Zone.
India’s envoy to Sri Lanka underscored the importance of close cooperation as an important part of the overall bilateral engagement between the navies of the two countries, as they handed over training aids of 22 million LKR (about Rs 81,00,000) to the island nation. Was. Navy for capacity building.
High Commissioner Gopal Baglay formally handed over the training navy to Sri Lanka Navy Commander Eastern Naval Region at a function organized on Sunday at the prestigious Naval and Maritime Academy (NMA) in the Eastern Naval Region, during a visit to the Northern and Eastern Provinces of Sri Lanka. ) Trincomalee.
During his visit in December 2019, Admiral Karambir Singh, Chief of the Naval Staff, committed to providing several training items to the Sri Lankan Navy, Indian High Commission, in view of the Indian Navy’s commitment in assisting regional navies in capacity building. Said in a statement in Colombo.
Delivered a model of the Sri Lanka Navy model of indigenously developed Varunastra heavy weight torpedoes, light weight torpedoes, underwater telephones, gas turbine cut models, HMS Trincomalee and Bathirathographs, with a focus on specialization courses being operated at NMA Gone. In 2020 operations were carried out by joint efforts of Sri Lanka and Indian Navy, Sri Lankan Navy and India’s OEMs.
Formally handing over the training assistant, the High Commissioner reiterated the importance of close cooperation between the two navies as an essential part of overall bilateral engagement. He also handed over Kindle e-book readers and books to the Library of the Naval and Maritime Academy.
The Indian Navy and the Sri Lankan Navy have always maintained a functional relationship and many of the Indian Navy’s training facilities are taken advantage of by the Sri Lankan Navy, the High Commission said.
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