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The
Coast Guard was formed within the Indian Navy on 1 February 1977 to
respond to smuggling and poaching by foreign vessels, as well as to
contribute to marine pollution control, performing the same border
control functions for the Navy as the Border Security Force does for
the Army. With a total manpower of around 5000, it has 42 ships, 13
aircrafts and 9 helicopters. It has three Regional Headquarters: Bombay,
Madras and Port Blair, ten other stations which are called Coast Guard
District Headquarters, along with stations at Okha, Vadinar, Tuticorin
and Mandappam.
The
Indian Coast Guard is a Paramilitary force, under the Ministry of
Defence, to protect the maritime and other national interests falling
in our Maritime zone; ensuring safety and protection of artificial
islands and off-shore installation; protection to fishermen and providing
them help at times of distress like cyclone; assisting the authorities
in prevention and control of smuggling and enforcing the provisions
of legislation enacted for application in the maritime zone. There
are three branches in Indian Coast Guard to manage the whole system.
These branches are general duty branch, pilot navigator branch, technical
branch.
Service in Coast Guard is not merely
an employment, it is where you play the most important role of protecting
the national interests of your motherland. The life of a Coast Guard
officer is a happy mix of many things: hard work, professionalism,
risk and adventure and the opportunity to move around and visit different
placed within India and abroad and to meet a variety of people. There
is also the satisfaction of being involved in the nation’s defence.Thus
career in the Coast Guard cannot be measured in financial terms only.Good
pay and abundant perks are supplemented by a constantly improving
job satisfying versatile career difficult to match in civil life.
