Consider the following statements about 'Exercise Sea Vigil-22' : 1. Its aim is to assess India's preparedness in the domain of Maritime security and coastal defence. 2. Naval forces of USA and Japan also took part in the exercise. Which of the statements given above is/are correct ?
- (a)1 only
- (b)2 only
- (c)Both 1 and 2
- (d)Neither 1 nor 2
Correct — A, 1 only. Exercise Sea Vigil-22 was the third edition of India's national-level coastal-defence exercise, conducted by the Indian Navy on 15-16 November 2022 across the entire coastline and Exclusive Economic Zone. Its stated aim was exactly to test India's preparedness in maritime security and coastal defence, so statement 1 is correct. It was a purely national drill involving all coastal States and Union Territories and every maritime agency — no foreign navy took part — so statement 2 is wrong.
- (b)2 only — Statement 2 is false. Sea Vigil is a domestic coastal-defence exercise; the navies of the USA and Japan did not participate. Those partners feature in the multilateral MALABAR exercise, not Sea Vigil.
- (c)Both 1 and 2 — Statement 1 is correct but statement 2 is not, so 'both' is wrong — the exercise had no US or Japanese naval participation.
- (d)Neither 1 nor 2 — Statement 1 is definitely correct (coastal-defence preparedness is the exercise's whole purpose), so 'neither' cannot be right.
Sea Vigil is India's largest coastal-defence exercise, launched in 2019 and held every year or two. It activates the entire coastal-security apparatus set up after the 2008 Mumbai attacks and is a precursor to the Navy's larger theatre-level exercise TROPEX.
The trap is statement 2, which invites you to confuse Sea Vigil with a multinational exercise such as MALABAR (India, USA, Japan, Australia). Sea Vigil is national by design — its point is to stitch together India's own coastal agencies, so foreign navies are not involved.
- Sea Vigil-22 (third edition) was held on 15-16 November 2022 by the Indian Navy.
- It covers the full coastline (about 7,500 km) and the Exclusive Economic Zone.
- All 13 coastal States/UTs plus the Coast Guard, Customs, port and fisheries agencies take part.
- It is a national exercise — no foreign navies participate (unlike MALABAR).
- Assuming any big Indian naval exercise involves foreign navies — Sea Vigil is national.
- Confusing Sea Vigil with MALABAR (which does include the US and Japan).
Asked as a two-statement 'which is/are correct' item that plants a false claim of foreign participation.
No directly related past PYQ was found.
- practice — not a real PYQ
Exercise Sea Vigil is best described as India's
- (a)multilateral naval exercise with the QUAD navies
- (b)national coastal-defence exercise
- (c)counter-insurgency exercise in the North-East
- (d)high-altitude mountain-warfare exercise
Answer(b) national coastal-defence exercise — testing the whole coastal-security setup.
- practice — not a real PYQ
Which multilateral naval exercise involves India, the USA, Japan and Australia?
- (a)Sea Vigil
- (b)TROPEX
- (c)MALABAR
- (d)AMPHEX
Answer(c) MALABAR — the QUAD-nation naval exercise, unlike the national Sea Vigil.