President Murmu to undertake submarine sea sortie from Karwar on December 28

Karwar: President Droupadi Murmu will visit the Kadamba Naval base here to undertake a sea sortie aboard a submarine on Sunday.

In view of the President’s visit to Karwar, the deputy commissioner of Uttara Kannada has issued an order prohibiting fishing activity for a length of 18 km from Karwar to Majali.

According to a release by Rashtrapati Bhavan, the President will take a sea sortie in a submarine from Karwar port on December 28.

Murmu will be the second head of state to sail in a submarine after A P J Abdul Kalam, who undertook a submarine sortie in February, 2006, at Visakhapatnam in Andhra Pradesh.