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Nari Shakti Puraskar 2017
May 30 , 2018
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- Members of the Indian Navy Sailing Vessel (INSV) Tarini team were presented with the Nari Shakti Puraskar 2017 by union minister for women and child development Maneka Gandhi.
- The six-member all-women team comprising Lt Commander Vartika Joshi, Lt Commander Pratibha Jamwal, Lt Commander Swathi Patarpalli, Lt Aishwarya Bodapatti, Lt SH Vijaya Devi and Lt Payal Gupta received the award.
- President Ram Nath Kovind had conferred the Nari Shakti Puraskars on International Women's Day (March 8th) in Rashtrapati Bhavan.
- As the INSV Tarini team was sailing then, the award could not be presented to the team.
- The crew of the INSV 'Tarini' is a part of the Indian Navy's unique project 'Navika Sagar Parikrama', an all-women team circumnavigating the globe, promoting ocean sailing activities in the Navy and depicting government of India's commitment towards women empowerment.
- Each crew member has a minimum of 20,000 nautical miles sailing experience.
- The project aims to demonstrate the thrust of Nari Shakti on the world platform.
- The voyage also showcased the Make in India initiative by sailing onboard the indigenously built INSV Tarini.
- The six-member all-women team, led by Lieutenant Commander Vartika Joshi circumnavigated and managed the whole operation in this first ever global journey.
- The voyage which lasted for 254 days, with 199 days at sea covered 21,600 nautical miles, had 5 port calls in Fremantle, Australia; Lyttelton, New Zealand; Port Stanley, Falklands; Cape Town, South Africa and finally at Mauritius before returning home to Goa.
- All six members of the crew were trained for over three years under Captain Dilip Donde, who is also the first Indian to successfully carry out solo-circumnavigation of the globe between 2009 and 2010.
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