The government is drafting a policy aimed at providing better security to Indian sailors and other seafarers in the wake of several incidents of hijacking of ships by pirates off the Somali Coast.
“The Ministry is drafting measures for security of the seafearers, but we cannot disclose any other information now as the proposal is at a preliminary stage,” a Shipping Ministry official said. Around 500 Indian seafarers have been held hostage by the Somali pirates off the Caribbean Coast in the past 4 years.