Tuticorin Coast Guard to get new Patrol vessel with Helicopter

Karunanidhi said he had already drawn the Prime Minister's for stationing of an offshore patrol vessel with an helicopter at Tuticorin under the exclusive control of the Coast Guard (Eastern Command) to operate in the Gulf of Mannar and the Indian Ocean.

He also wanted infrastructure facilities for refuelling at Tuticorin Airport. The Coast Guard should be permitted to use the facility, he added.