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Published: January 17, 2016 00:00 IST | Updated: January 17, 2016 05:40 IST
PUDUCHERRY, January 17, 2016

Coast Guard air enclave planned

S. Prasad and
CG Director General meets Chief Minister for consultations on various projects

Vice-Admiral H.C.S. Bisht, Director General of Coast Guard, hands over a Coffee Table book on the Indian Coast Guard to Chief Minister N.
Rangasamy in Puducherry on Saturday. S.P. Sharma, Inspector General of Coast Guard and S.C. Tyagi, DIG, are in the picture. Photo: T.
Singaravelou
The Indian Coast Guard is planning to set up an air enclave near the Puducherry Airport in Lawspet to boost aerial surveillance, Vice-Admiral
H.C.S. Bisht, Director General of Indian Coast Guard has said.
Talking to reporters after paying a courtesy call on Chief Minister N. Rangasamy in his chamber in the Legislative Assembly on Saturday, Mr.
Bisht said the Coast Guard was in consultations with the Puducherry Government for setting up the air enclave.
We had some good discussions with the Chief Minister. The Coast Guard is also planning a Hovercraft port at Veerampattinam where we can
base some of our hovercraft. The Hovercraft port is coming up on an extent of 35 acres and we have to resolve some issues. As of now we are
concentrating on the Air enclave and hovercraft port projects, Mr. Bisht said.
S.P. Sharma, Inspector General of Coast Guard, said that two hovercrafts would be berthed at the facility at Veerampattinam. The Centre has
already earmarked two hovercrafts for the Union Territory.
Presently the hovercrafts are parked at Mandapam in Ramanathapuram district in Tamil Nadu due to lack of parking space in Puducherry.
The hoverport would be ready in two years and would augment the stations capability of search and rescue operations along the Puducherry
coastline.
Deputy Inspector General S.C. Tyagi commander of the Coast Guard Headquarters in Puducherry was present.
Hoverport
The release of 3.45 acres of land at Veerampattinam for the hoverport project signifies a breakthrough for the Indian Coast GuardStation in
Puducherry which was upgraded to District Headquarters No.13 in 2014.
The decks have been cleared for developing a hoverport that would provide staging facilities for our hovercraft fleet, which would be
augmented in accordance with the emerging scenario in future, said Mr. Tyagi.
The hoverport would significantly strengthen the Coast Guard units sea capabilities and coastal security in this region on the eastern
seaboard. To start with, it is proposed to develop staging facilities (seafront ramps) for the two UK-made Air Cushion Vehicles the Coast
Guard unit was allotted in 2013 with the help of in-house expertise and possibly engineers of the CPWD, Mr. Tyagi said.
Though the Coast Guard had acquired 20 acres near the seafront, it had been unable to develop sea assets on the site after the 2004 tsunami
put pressure on the government to focus on resettlement and rehabilitation of fishermen communities.
With the government offering relocation as a solution to the deadlock, the Coast Guard has now identified about 28 acres of land in
Karuvadikuppam over and above the nearly 16 acres that was due for compensation.
The Coast Guard has also identified about 35 acres of land in Karuvadikuppam for the Air Enclave project which has been in the pipeline for
over three years.
As the Puducherry Government has enhanced the guideline value of land which is markedly higher than the rates sanctioned for the original
proposal by the Government of India, the Coast Guard has been instructed to resubmit the project.
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