Rajnath Singh to address Naval Commanders’ Conference 2020 on operational preparedness

The Naval Commanders’ Conference 2020 is scheduled in New Delhi from August 19-21, the Indian Navy said on Tuesday.

The conference is the apex-level event for interaction between the Naval Commanders. The Chief of the Naval Staff, with the commanders-in-chief, will review major operational, materiel, logistics, human resource, training and administrative activities undertaken during the year, and will deliberate upon the course to be steered in the future.

The conference assumes greater significance in the backdrop of the recent events on the northern borders, coupled with the unprecedented challenges posed by coronavirus, and would provide the higher naval leadership a forum to discuss conduct of operations, sustenance and maintenance of assets, procurement issues, infrastructure development, human resources management among others, within the ambit of the new normal established by the pandemic.

Defence minister Rajanath Singh is scheduled to address the Naval Commanders on the opening day of the event and interact with them.

The conference is also a forum for the interaction of Naval Commanders with other senior government officials.

This is the first Naval Commanders’ Conference since the institution of Department of Military Affairs (DMA) and Chief of Defence Staff (CDS). The conference will focus on the ways to optimise joint planning structures, tri-service synergy, operational readiness, and also functional reorganisation within the Navy to improve efficiency.

In keeping with Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s vision of Security and Growth for All in the Region (SAGAR), the commanders would also undertake deliberations upon the larger security imperatives in the Indo-Pacific.