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Q.5 What is done during the Merchant Navy Day every year?
1. It includes laying of wreath at Seamen's Memorials and pay
tributes
homage to seamen who laid down their lives while on high seas
in 1st and
2nd world wars.
2. On Merchant Navy Flag Day at New Delhi 1st Merchant Navy Flag
is
pinned on the wearing apparel of the Prime Minister of India by
the
Minister for Shipping.
3. This practice has been prevalent from 2002 onwards.
4. At the State level on Merchant Navy Flag Day the first Miniature
Merchant
Navy Flag is pinned on the wearing apparel of the Governor of
Maharashtra by the Director General of Shipping in Mumbai.
3.. His underlying assumption was that the post-war years would also
spell massive growth for the shipping industry just as the war years
had done.
12. He also believed that there was a strong need for a shipyard in
India and started work on one in 1940 at Visakhapatnam, named
Scindia Shipyard later renamed the Hindustan Shipyard Limited. Its
first ship, the 8000-ton Jalusha was launched soon after independence
by Jawaharlal Nehru in 1948.
13.. There was a harsh competition with the larger British shipping
concerns like P & O & B.I.
15. The main problem was that the war left a legacy of ships in poor
condition, and a much smaller fleet.
20. The government continued to support the company with loans for
expansion plans,
21. In 1958 the National Shipping Board was formed, marking the
progress made by the Indian shipping industry.
22. In the 1960s cargo services went to Germany, the Pacific coasts,
Poland and Canada, with increasingly large ships.
23. Following the global slump in the 1980s Scindia ceased trading.
Q.8 . What are the steps taken by Walchand Hirachand to retain the
Scindia Steam Navigation Company?
4. He also believed that there was a strong need for a shipyard in India
and started work on one in 1940 at Visakhapatnam, named Scindia
Shipyard later renamed the Hindustan Shipyard Limited. Its first ship,
the 8000-ton Jalusha was launched soon after independence by
Jawaharlal Nehru in 1948.
5. The intervening years had been beset by harsh competition with the
larger British shipping concerns. Passenger services were started with
subsidiary companies, for the Burma trade and the Haj trade to Saudi
Arabia. The war left a legacy of ships in poor condition, and a much
smaller fleet.
Flag
House flag of the Scindia Steam Navigation Co LtdThe company's house flag was a
rectangular blue flag with a white disc in the centre bearing a red swastika, an ancient
Hindu emblem of luck.