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Navy Day
- Dec 08, 2022
- Navy Day in India is celebrated on 4 December every year to recognize the achievements and role of the Indian Navy to the country
- 1. 4th December was chosen Navy day as on that day in 1971, during Operation Trident, the Indian Navy sank four Pakistani vessels including PNS Khaibar, killing hundreds of Pakistani Navy personnel.
- 2. On this day, those killed in the Indo Pakistan War of 1971 were also remembered.
- Background
- The Indian Navy is the naval branch of the Indian Armed Forces and is led by the President of India as Commander-in-Chief. The Indian Navy has an important role in securing the marine borders of the country as well as enhancing the international relations of India through seaport visits, joint exercises, humanitarian calamity relief and so on. The modern Indian Navy is undergoing a speedy renovation in order to improve its position in the Indian Ocean region.
- Reason for celebrating Navy Day
- Navy Day in India originally coincided with the Royal Navy's Trafalgar Day. On 21 October 1944. The idea behind celebrating Navy Day was to boost outreach and increase awareness about the Navy amongst the general public Navy Day celebrations traditionally witnessed parades at various port cities as well as organizing public meetings at inland Naval establishments. From 1945 onwards, after World War 2, Navy Day was celebrated on 1 December, Navy Day was celebrated on 15 December, and the week in which 15 December fell was observed as Navy Week. In 1972, old traditions gave way to new reasons to celebrate the day. At the Senior Naval Officer's Conference in May 1972, it was decided that Navy Day would be celebrated on 4 December to commemorate the actions of the Indian Navy during the 1971 Indo-Pakistan War, and Navy Week would be observed from 1 to 7 December.[11] Navy Day in India is now celebrated to commemorate Operation Trident,[12] which was the attack on the Karachi harbor during the Indo-Pakistan war (on 4 December 1971) by the Indian Naval Missile boats as well in to reverence all the martyrs of that war. During the attack, Indian sailors communicated in Russian to avoid detection. No Indian sailors were killed in the attack.[13][14] The theme of Navy Day 2021 is "Swarnim Vijay Varsh". "Covid-19 and Chinese attempts to change status quo along northern borders have posed new challenges.
