{"id":141663,"date":"2022-04-05T13:51:39","date_gmt":"2022-04-05T08:21:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsmakhani.com\/?p=141663"},"modified":"2022-04-05T13:57:52","modified_gmt":"2022-04-05T08:27:52","slug":"shri-sarbananda-sonowal-emphasises-important-contribution-of-seafarers-during-the-tough-covid-times-in-making-country-self-reliant-and-keeping-global-supply-chain-operational","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsnarad.com\/hi\/shri-sarbananda-sonowal-emphasises-important-contribution-of-seafarers-during-the-tough-covid-times-in-making-country-self-reliant-and-keeping-global-supply-chain-operational\/","title":{"rendered":"Shri Sarbananda Sonowal emphasises important contribution of seafarers during the tough COVID times in making country self reliant and keeping global supply chain operational"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"qtranxs-available-languages-message qtranxs-available-languages-message-hi\">\u0915\u094d\u0937\u092e\u093e \u0915\u0930\u0947\u0902, \u092f\u0939 \u0938\u092e\u093e\u091a\u093e\u0930 \u0906\u092a\u0915\u0947 \u0905\u0928\u0941\u0930\u094b\u0927 \u0915\u0940 \u092d\u093e\u0937\u093e \u092e\u0947\u0902 \u0909\u092a\u0932\u092c\u094d\u0927 \u0928\u0939\u0940\u0902 \u0939\u0948\u0964 <a href=\"https:\/\/newsmakhani.com\/en\/\">\u0915\u0943\u092a\u092f\u093e \u092f\u0939\u093e\u0901 \u0926\u0947\u0916\u0947\u0902\u0964<\/a><\/p><p><\/p>\n<div class=\"text-center\">\n<h2><span style=\"color: #444444; font-size: 16px;\">DELHI : 05 APR 2022\u00a0<\/span><\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Union Minister for Ports, Shipping &amp; Waterways Shri Sarbananda Sonowal has emphasised the important contribution of seafarers during the tough COVID times in making country self reliant and keeping global supply chain operational.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Congratulating\u00a0 all stakeholders of maritime fraternity at the 59<sup>th<\/sup> National Maritime Day celebration function he said that inspite of the huge challenges\u00a0 our Indian seafarers courageously continued to keep India\u2019s Flag flying high throughout the world. He said the role played by Indian seafarers in keeping the global supply chain operational can well be gauged from the fact that even during the height of COVID-19 Pandemic more than 2,10,000 Indian seafarers served on Indian and Foreign ships in 2021.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>He said this also ensured that Indian and global trade and commerce activities continued unhindered. Shri Sonowal said with our Indian seafarers working throughout the world in pandemic times, we set an example for the world of our rich ancient Indian ethos and philosophy of Vasudaiva Kutumbakam or the entire world is one family .<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Shri Sonowal said\u00a0 Prime Minister has announced that India will achieve net zero targets by 2070. Accordingly, this year\u2019s National Maritime Day theme of \u2018Propelling Indian Maritime Industry to Net Zero\u2019 is apt. He said in the Maritime Industry, India has always championed the cause of environmental protection, whether it is implementation of Global Sulphur Cap or IMO greenhouse gas emission regulations on domestic ships or committing to Conference of Parties to UNFCC to reach Net Zero by 2070.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>He said in pursuance of attaining the dream of\u00a0 Prime Minister\u00a0 and as espoused through Maritime India Vision, 2030 he was confident that India would lead the world through the Maritime sector in the years to come.<\/p>\n<p>The Minister further elaborated that share of Indian seafarer in world shipping has shown an increase of 25% between 2016 and 2019.<\/p>\n<p>He said the Indian cruise industry, is growing rapidly due to multiple government interventions in the last 3 years. Over the next decade, the Indian cruise market has the potential to increase by 8 times driven by rising demand and disposable incomes, he added.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Shri Sonowal also appreciated the tremendous contribution made by maritime community and informed that the Government is promoting \u2018Ease of Doing Business\u2019 to reduce logistic costs and facilitate shipping and is working towards making Indian maritime sector attain the foremost position in the world.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Today\u2019s event was started by flagging off Walkathon by\u00a0 Minister of State\u00a0 Shri Shantanu Thakur at Safdarjung Tomb in the morning . On this occasion senior officials of the Ministry, DG Shipping, Port officials and about 600 trainee cadets from Maritime institutes located in the NCR MTI, teaching faculties as well as Merchant navy officers from NCR region were also present.<\/p>\n<p>National Maritime Day Celebration assumes special significance as it was exactly 103 years back when history was created, on 5<sup>th<\/sup> April 1919, SS Loyalty, first Ship under Indian Flag, set sail from Mumbai to London.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"entry-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newsmakhani.com\/pm-congratulates-indian-music-composer-ricky-kej-on-winning-grammy-award-for-album-divine-tides\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">READ\u00a0 MORE\u00a0 :- PM congratulates Indian music composer, Ricky Kej on winning Grammy Award for album Divine Tides<\/a><\/h3>\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u0915\u094d\u0937\u092e\u093e \u0915\u0930\u0947\u0902, \u092f\u0939 \u0938\u092e\u093e\u091a\u093e\u0930 \u0906\u092a\u0915\u0947 \u0905\u0928\u0941\u0930\u094b\u0927 \u0915\u0940 \u092d\u093e\u0937\u093e \u092e\u0947\u0902 \u0909\u092a\u0932\u092c\u094d\u0927 \u0928\u0939\u0940\u0902 \u0939\u0948\u0964 \u0915\u0943\u092a\u092f\u093e \u092f\u0939\u093e\u0901 \u0926\u0947\u0916\u0947\u0902\u0964 DELHI : 05 APR 2022\u00a0 &nbsp; Union Minister for Ports, Shipping &amp; Waterways Shri Sarbananda Sonowal has emphasised the important contribution of seafarers during the tough COVID times in making country self reliant and keeping global supply chain operational. &nbsp; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":141665,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[109,122],"tags":[56731,44291],"class_list":["post-141663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-national","category-news","tag-news-makhani","tag-shri-sarbananda-sonowal"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsnarad.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsnarad.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsnarad.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsnarad.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsnarad.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141663"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsnarad.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141663\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsnarad.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/141665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsnarad.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsnarad.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsnarad.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}