Report on Training on Aids to Marine Navigation at MNTI, Kolkata from 01-05-2017 to 05-05-2017. 1. Introduction: A memorandum of agreement has been signed between the International Association of Marine Aids to navigation and Lighthouse Authorities (IALA) and Directorate General of Lighthouses & Lightships (DGLL) for facilitation and delivery of a professional training course on the Management of Marine Aids to Navigation based on IALA model course E-141/1. To achieve the objective of the training in India to an International standard the existing training centre has been upgraded by re furbishing the existing assets in the Deep Bhawan complex as well as outdoor additional facilities in the Deep Bhawan compound at an estimated cost of Rs.7.62 Crores (Approx.) sanctioned by the Govt of India. So far, the accommodations to accommodate 18 participants and a new lecture hall to accommodate 40 trainees with the ultramodern facilities, VTS simulator room and faculty rest rooms have been created. The outdoor facilities like jogging track, indoor badminton stadium, swimming pool volleyball court etc. are under development. As a confidence building measure, DGLL approached IALA to organize a short term course on training on Aids to marine Navigation with international participants, AToN Managers from Indian Marine fraternity and Departmental engineers in the month of May,2017. IALA approved the short term programme and conveyed their participation to organize the training by providing faculties from IALA worldwide academy. As per the MoA, a proposal has been mooted out for approval of the Ministry of Shipping to invite foreign delegates and AToN Managers of Indian Marine fraternity. The Ministry of Shipping approved the proposal and conveyed the
administrative sanction to incur the expenditure vide letter No.F.No.LH- 11020/1/2017-SL dated 17/03/2017. Based on the approval received, the NIOR countries have been approached to nominate their candidates for the training. The Indian Marine fraternity of both Government & Private agencies to sponsor their candidates for the training programme. 2. Concept of the training: A short term training programme from 1 st May,2017 to 5 th May,2017 has been planned to organize at the newly created MNTI ( Marine Navigational Training Institute) to offer training based on IALA model L 1.4. The course fee for the NIOR countries has been exempted from payment. The course fee for the Indian Marine Fraternity has been fixed as Rs.5000/-. The complete training programme for the 05 days covering the course content and faculty. 3. Faculties for the training programme : The short term course has been planned with the following faculties from various agencies. (i) IALA - WWA : Mr. Omar Frits ERIKSSON, Dean Mr. Stephan Bennet, Vice Dean (ii) Certified AToN Managers of DGLL : Shri. Madhukar G. Gurdadhe, Director Shri. Umesh Kumar, Dy.Director Shri. R.K. Verma, Dy. Director
Shri. A.K. Debata, Dy. Director Shri. D.S. Jathar, Astt. Executive Engineer ( Civil ) (iii) Field Experts : Shri. Nikhil Sharma, Vice President, M/s. Elcome Integrated System Pvt. Ltd. Dr. V.V. L.N. Sarma, O/o. National Hydrographic office, 4. Course participants : (i) NIOR Countries have been approached to nominate the participants from their countries to attend the training organized in association with the IALA WWA. The following four countries nominated their participants : (a) Sudan (b) Sri Lanka (c) Bangladesh and (d) Myanmar Out of the four nominations, only three have been accepted, as detailed below. The participant from Myanmar could not attend the training programme due to non availability of approval for his travel expenditure from Competent Authority. NAME / DESIGNATION COUNTRY/ORGANISATION S.No 1 CAPT. MAUS ATHUKORALA, PILOT SRILANKA 2 CAPT. SALAH SALEM SULIMAN MARINE ADMISTRATIVE DIRECTORATE, PORT OF SUDAN 3 MD. NASIR UDDIN, ELECTRONIC INSTRUCTOR BANGLADESH MARINE ACADEMY, CHITTAGONG BANGLADESH
(ii) The various marine fraternity of the Indian coast have also been approached by this office to sponsor their candidates to attend the training, out of 78 requests, only 17 number of organizations sponsored their candidates as below. SL. NAME & DESIGNATION ORGANISATION NO. 1 CAPT. U.S.BEHERA, PILOT V.O CHIDAMBARARANAR, TUTICORIN 2 CAPT. C.P. ASHOK, DY. SUPERINTENDANT, DREDGER & DESPATCH 3 CAPT. A.B.SOLANKI, NAUTICAL SURVEYOUR & PORT OFFICER, NAVLAKHI. 4 MR.MANOJ KUMAR SINGH, MARINE CREW 5 MR.ABDULLA KUTTY, MANAGER(PS&O) KOLKATA PORT TRUST GUJRAT MARITIME BOARD JSW JAIGARH PORT LIMITED PORT MANAGEMENT BOARD PORT BLAIR 6 MR.PRADEEP KUMAR DEY, SIGNAL SUPERINTENDANT PORT MANAGEMENT BOARD PORT BLAIR 7 MR.J.VIVEK LALL, FOREMAN(RADIO) PORT MANAGEMENT BOARD PORT BLAIR 8 MR.RAMAKANTH NAYAK, SENIOR SIGNALMAN PARADIP PORT TRUST 9 CAPT. PROMOD KUMAR, PILOT JNPT 10 CAPT. SAJAN K VERGHEES, DOCK MASTER 11 CAPT. UPADHAYAY, NAUTICAL SURVEYOUR- CUM- DDG(TECH), MMD,HALDIA 12 SH. SEKAR P, COMMUNICATION OFFICER 13 SH.RADHA KANTA SAHOO, MARINE OFFICER 14 CAPT. LALIT MOHAN RATH DY. CONSERVATOR COCHIN PORT TRUST DG SHIPPING KATTUPALLI PORT DHAMRA PORT GOPALPUR PORTS LIMITED 15 SH. D.KUMAR RELIANCE PORT & TERMINAL 16 CAPT. VINAY RAJ TYAGI, PILOT KANDLA PORT 17 SH. APURVA KUMAR JADEJA, SIGNAL KANDLA PORT
SUPERINTENDENT (iii) The list of candidates nominated by the Director General of Lighthouses under :- & Lightships to attend the training programme are as S. Name Designation District No. 1 Shri Birendra Yadav Dy.Director HQ. Office 2 Shri Hans Raj Bairwa Dy.Director Gandhidham 3 Shri G Satyanarayana Dy.Director Chennai 4 Shri Julius Fernandis AEE(E) Mumbai 5 Shri dharamveer Srivastava AEE(E) Mumbai 6 Shri P Sriramulu AEE(E) HQ Office 7 Shri M P Nimare AEE(E) Gandhidham 8 Shri Saravanan AEE(Civil) Port Blair 9 Shri Abdullah Rafique AEE(E) Visakhapatnam 10 Shri Naresh Kumar AEE(E) Gandhidham 4. The following supporting officials have also been nominated from various directorates by the DGLL to support the Kolkata Directorate in organizing the training programme : S. Name Designation District No. 1 Shri S Ravichandran Dy.Director Cochin 2 Shri Amitava Roy Astt.Engineer(C) Noida 3 Shri P J Nakhwa Executive Officer Mumbai 4 Shri R M Sawant NA-I Mumbai 5 Shri M S Sudhakaran JE(C) Cochin 6 Shri Sunil Raisinghani Superintendent Noida 7 Smt. Geeta Bhaduria Superintendent Noida 8 Shri N Murugesan Superintendent Noida 9 Shri J A John Technician (E) Mumbai 10 Shri K Sarvan Kumar RT Gandhidham 11 Shri G P Sapkal Technician(G) Mumbai 12 Shri Rajasekaran NA-I Chennai 13 Shri Venkateshwar Rao NA-I Port Blair 14 Shri A K Srivastava NA-II Jamnagar 15 Shri P K Ghosh NA-II Visakhapatnam 16 Shri Rajesh Madao UDC Mumbai
17 Shri S Y Ambre LHA Mumbai 5. Sponsoring Agencies : The training programme was to be graced by the Secretary General of IALA, the Dean and the Vice Dean of IALA worldwide academy as well as the members / participants from the marine fraternity of various organizations establishing and maintaining the AToNs in the Indian coast as well as members from NIOR countries. Therefore it was decided to invite the industrial members of India to show case their products and services to the participants as well as to have access to the IALA members for their product suitability and international recognition. A total of nine agencies were invited, out of which two agencies turned up to display their products at the venue of the inauguration. 6. Training Programme: (i) Day-01 ( 01/05/2017) : The venue for training programme for the first day has been kept at Hotel Hindustan International, Kolkata due to space constrain at Deep Bhavan. The registration of the participants has been done at the venue after obtaining their credentials and registration fees ( as applicable) by supplying course materials carry bag, stationary for class work and digital storage device to record daily lectures. Apart from the faculties, the participants, the function was graced by the Secretary General of IALA and Director General of Lighthouses & Lightships, Noida. The following officers from the Headquarters office and from various Directorates were also present at the inauguration programme.
Sl. Name and Designation District No. 1 Shri D K Sinha, Dy.Director General HQ. Noida 2 Shri E Murthy,Dy.Director General Gandhidham 3 Shri N. Muruganandam,Dy. DGLL Chennai 4 Shri B S Jaswal, Director HQ., Noida 5 Shri K P Singh, Director HQ. Noida 6. Shri S B Mishra, Director Gandhidham 7. Shri Y Umakant, Director Jamnagar 8. Shri C P Singh, Director Mumbai 9. Shri D Venkatraman, Director Chennai 10. Shri R M Patel, Director Visakhapatnam 11. Shri L B S Yadav, Director Port Blair 12 Capt. Sibbal, VTS Manager Gandhidham The opening ceremony for the programme commenced with welcoming of the chief guest and dignitaries on the dais by Shri A K Singh, Director, the course coordinator. Mr. Francis Zachariae, Secretary-General, IALA was the chief guest and S/ Shri J S Chauhan, Director General, D K Sinha, Dy. Director General, Omar Frits ERIKSSON, Dean, IALA-WWA and C B Srivastava, Dy. Director General were seated. They were welcomed with Shawl and Flower bouquet. The programme commenced with lighting of Lamp followed by recitation of Swaraswati Vandana. Shri A K Singh, Director, Course coordinator delivered the welcome address. Mr. Omar Frits Eriksson, Dean, IALA-WWA delivered a speech about the course and curriculum of the training. Mr. Francis Zachariae, Secretary- General, IALA given speech as a chief guest and Shri J S Chauhan, Director General also given the speech about the MNTI and joint initiative of IALA WWA DGLL on the MoA to organize various trainings.
After the inauguration ceremony high tea was provided to the gathering. Thereafter the regular classes commenced and progressed as under: Time Description of subject Name of the Faculty 1100-1145 IALA and its Academy Dean WWA 1150-1230 Overview of radio aids to navigation Vice Dean WWA 1400-1445 Background to e-navigation Dean WWA 1450-1530 The Development of e-navigation Dean WWA 1600-1645 ENC and ECDIS Dr. VVLN SARMA, NHO 1650-1730 Positional accuracy standards Vice Dean WWA On conclusion of day one programme the participants were informed that the regular training for the remaining days will be conducted in the Lecture Hall of MNTI, Deep Bhawan, Taratalla Road, Kolkata. (ii) Day-02 (02/05/2017) : The second day programme commenced with the introduction of the participants and other dignitaries present over there. The activities of the programme was as under: 0930-1000 Review of Day 1 Quiz Vice Dean WWA 1000-1100 Global Navigation Satellite Systems Sh.Umesh kumar,dd 1130-1215 GNSS vulnerability Dean WWA 1215-1300 Position,Navigation, and Timing Dean WWA 1400-1445 Communications and GMDSS Overview Vice Dean WWA
1450-1530 VHF Data Exchange System Dean WWA 1600-1645 Automatic Identification System(AIS) Sh. Madhukar G Gudadhe,Director 1650-1730 Technical aspects of AIS Dean WWA (iii) Day 03 ( 03/05/2017) : 0930-1000 Review of day 1 and 2 Quiz Vice Dean WWA 1000-1100 Information systems and architecture Dean WWA 1115-1200 Development of AIS in India Shri Nikhil Sharma 1200-1300 e- navigation test beds Dean WWA 1400-1730 Technical / Cultural visit of Kolkata (iv) Day-04 ( 04/05/2017): 0930-1000 Review of Days 1-3 Quiz Vice Dean WWA 1000-1030 Augmentation of GNSS services Shri Nikhil Sharma 1030-1100 DGNSS development in India Sh.A.K.Debata,DD 1115-1200 Levels of Service overview Sh.R.K.Verma,DD 1200-1300 Levels of Service----Operational Plan Vice Dean WWA 1400-1430 A to N Reviews and Planning Vice Dean WWA 1435-1530 AtoN Performance management Dean WWA 1600-1645 User consultancy in India Sh.D.S.Jathar,AEE(C) 1645-1730 User consultancy group exercise Participants
(v) Day -05 ( 05/05/2017): 0930-1000 Review of Days 1-4 Quiz Vice Dean WWA 1000-1100 AIS and virtual AIS discussion Dean WWA 1200-1300 Question and Answer session DGLL/IALA Expert panel 1150-1230 Closing ceremony and presentation of certificates 1300 Course ends (vi) Closing Ceremony: Before the commencement of closing ceremony, an interactive season between the panel of experts and participants was arranged. The participants shown enthusiasm to question the panel of experts on the course contents. The panel of experts replied. Thereafter, the participation certificates and mementos were distributed to the participants. The training programme was concluded after delivering vote of thanks to all concerned. The approved format of the certificate is enclosed. 7. Inspection of the MNTI by the Secretary General and team of IALA WWA In the course of time, on day 02 i.e. 02/05/2017 the team comprising of the Secretary General IALA, the Dean and Vice Dean of IALA-WWA accompanied by the DGLL, Dy. Director Generals and Director, Dte. Of Lighthouses & Lightships, Kolkata carried out physical inspection of various facilities created in MNTI, Deep Bhawan to organize various Training programmes at par with International Standard. The inspection team was fully satisfied with the facilities already created and remaining developments for creation of additional facilities at MNTI.
8. Inauguration of VTS simulator: As a part of development of MNTI to International standards for imparting training, VTS simulator was established. The VTS simulator was inaugurated by Shri J S Chauhan,DGLL in the august presence of Mr. Francis Zachariae, Secretary-General, IALA, Mr. Omar Frits ERIKSSON, Dean, and Mr. Stephan Bennet, Vice Dean and officers of directorate on 02/05/2017. The IALA team appreciated the facilities established at MNTI. 9. Caliber of Indian Level 1 alumni : After completion of the entire programme the IALA Faculty was asked to give their assessment on the five Indian alumni who delivered the lectures during the training programme. Accordingly, Mr. Stephan Bennet, Vice Dean assessed their performance and issued a performance report. The same may kindly be kept in view while posting the staff to MNTI or to this Directorate. 10. Feed Back: The IALA approved feedback form was circulated among the participants to offer their comments about the course. The candidates returned the feedback forms duly filled in. The forms are kept in this office.