The biennial Multilateral Naval Exercise, MILAN-22, was officially inaugurated by Union Minister of State for Defence Ajay Bhatt at a programme organised at Samudrika Auditorium at Eastern Naval Command (ENC) on Saturday.
MILAN would be conducted till March 4. After the Harbour Phase, the Sea Phase, which comprises complex naval exercises, would begin from March 1.
The Union Minister inaugurated the event in the presence of Chief of Naval Staff Admiral R. Hari Kumar, Ambassadors, High Commissioners, Chiefs of Navies, delegation heads of participating countries, and the commanding officers and crew of all participating ships.