{"id":28295,"date":"2024-11-28T03:35:07","date_gmt":"2024-11-27T22:05:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=28295"},"modified":"2025-04-08T18:12:38","modified_gmt":"2025-04-08T12:42:38","slug":"sarex-24","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/sarex-24\/","title":{"rendered":"SAREX-24"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About SAREX-24:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is conducted under the aegis of <strong>National Maritime Search and Rescue Board.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The <strong>theme of the exercise<\/strong> is \u2018Enhancing Search and Rescue capabilities through Regional collaboration\u2019.<\/li>\n<li>It signifies ICG\u2019s commitment to provide succor during large-scale contingencies regardless of location, nationality or circumstances in the Indian Search &amp; Rescue Region and beyond.<\/li>\n<li>This event will feature various programmes, including <strong>table-top exercise, workshop &amp; seminars involving participation<\/strong> of senior officials from government agencies, Ministries &amp; Armed Forces, various stakeholders and foreign delegates.<\/li>\n<li>The <strong>sea exercise involving<\/strong> two large scale contingencies will be carried out off the Kochi coast with participation of ships &amp; aircraft of ICG, Navy, Indian Air Force, Passenger Vessel &amp; Tug from Cochin Port Authority and boats from the Customs.<\/li>\n<li>The response matrix in the sea exercise will involve various methods to evacuate distressed passengers, wherein the advent of new-age technology using satellite-aided distress beacons, drones to deploy a life buoy, air droppable life rafts, operation of remote controlled life buoy will be demonstrated.<\/li>\n<li>The exercise is designed not only to evaluate efficiency of operations and coordination with national stakeholders, but also to <strong>aptly focus on cooperative engagements with the littorals and friendly countries.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1: What is the Indian Coast Guard?<\/h3>\n<p>It is an armed force that protects India&#8217;s maritime interests and enforces maritime law, with jurisdiction over the territorial waters of India, including its contiguous zone and exclusive economic zone.<\/p>\n<p><strong>News: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/pib.gov.in\/PressReleasePage.aspx?PRID=2077822\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Defence Secretary to inaugurate 11th National Maritime Search and Rescue Exercise &amp; Workshop of Indian Coast Guard in Kochi<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SAREX-24  is conducted under the aegis of National Maritime Search and Rescue Board.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":28296,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-28295","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\/28295","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=28295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28295\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}