Question

Discuss the importance of Andaman and nicobar island and lakshadweep island in the context of the indian navy.write the point below​

Answer 1

Lakshadweep island is very important as from the security and strategic point of view .

The Indian Navy will use the Lakshadweep Islands to exercise sea denial as an offensive ,measure, to reduce an adversary’s freedom of action and to degrade its operations. On another level, the rising presence of extra-regional powers, particularly China, creates a need for greater vigilance and maritime surveillance off the country’s western coast.

Key points

*The islands of the Lakshadweep archipelago will receive increased strategic attention as India expands its maritime horizons, in both the western and eastern theatres of the Indian Ocean.

*The islands offer the same advantages for India’s naval diplomacy as do the Andaman Islands, to the east.

*Along with the new naval base at Karwar on India’s west coast, they will be used to project India’s command of the sea in the western Indian Ocean.

*The island group will receive increased attention because of its proximity to the energy-rich western Indian Ocean, despite the fact that it could require a re-allocation of relatively scarce resources.

*It is possible that Lakshadweep, along with the Southern Naval Command in Kochi, could be converted into a Tri-Command facility.

In conclusion, the Lakshadweep will receive increased attention because of its strategic proximity to the energy-rich western Indian Ocean littoral. But that might also pose operational and managerial problems for the Indian Navy, such as the allocation of resources to its western and southern naval commands.