{"id":21168,"date":"2024-03-03T02:49:18","date_gmt":"2024-03-02T21:19:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=21168"},"modified":"2025-04-06T10:19:43","modified_gmt":"2025-04-06T04:49:43","slug":"ins-jatayu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/ins-jatayu\/","title":{"rendered":"INS Jatayu"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>About INS Jatayu<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is the\u00a0second Naval base in Lakshadweep after INS Dweeprakshak in Kavaratti.<\/li>\n<li>With the commissioning of INS Jatayu, the Indian Navy will strengthen its foothold in the Lakshadweep islands and along with\u00a0extending operational surveillance, reach and sustenance.<\/li>\n<li>It will usher in a new era of capacity building and comprehensive development of the island territories.<\/li>\n<li>The event marks an important milestone in the Navy\u2019s resolve to incrementally augment security infrastructure at the strategically important Lakshadweep Islands.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Key facts about Minicoy Island<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is the\u00a0southernmost island of Lakshadweep which straddles the vital Sea Lines of Communications (SLOCs).<\/li>\n<li>Naval Detachment Minicoy was set up in early 1980s under the operational command of Naval Officer-in-Charge (Lakshadweep).<\/li>\n<li>Significance of the naval detachment\n<ul>\n<li>Basing of an independent Naval unit with requisite infrastructure and resources will enhance the overall operational capability of the Indian Navy in the islands.<\/li>\n<li>The base will enhance operational reach and facilitate Indian Navy\u2019s operational effort towards Anti-Piracy and Anti-Narcotics Operations in Western Arabian Sea. It will also augment Indian Navy\u2019s capability as the first responder in the region and augment connectivity with the mainland.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What is INS Dweeprakshak?<\/h3>\n<p>It is the Naval Base of Indian Navy was commissioned at Kavaratti in the Lakshadweep archipelago. It has incrementally augmented the security infrastructure at the strategically important Lakshadweep Islands.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/pib.gov.in\/PressReleasePage.aspx?PRID=2010884\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>INDIAN NAVY TO ENHANCE ITS OPERATIONAL CAPABILITY WITH COMMISSIONING OF INS JATAYU AT MINICOY ISLAND (LAKSHADWEEP)<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>INS Jatayu is the second Naval base in Lakshadweep after INS Dweeprakshak in Kavaratti.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":21169,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-21168","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21168\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}