INS Chilka | Indian Navy And Indian Coast Guard Sailors Training Establishment

What are the training activities in INS chilka?

Sailor Training Centre - INS Chilka

Introduction. INS Chilka is a premier basic training establishment for sailor of the Indian Navy and serves to impart ab-initio training to recruits by a demanding and comprehensive training regimen as can be expected in a Boot camp. The duration of the course run at INS Chilka is nine weeks for Artificer Apprentices/ DEDH, fifteen weeks for NMERs (MR- Matric Recruits/NMR (Non Matric Recruits) and twenty four weeks for SSR (SSR- Senior Secondary Recruits Entry) and the frequency of the course is twice a year. On an average, 3000 raw recruits are transformed into Sea Warriors each year.

Present Day Requirements. The Indian Navy is making rapid headways in the international arena and requires sailor with technical acumen to man the highly sophisticated equipments onboard ships, submarine and aircrafts.

Sea Warrior. The term Sea Warrior has been coined at INS Chilka to impart a martial connotation in defining the men who will serve onboard ships of the Indian Navy. Accordingly, besides naval orientation and physical training, mental condition is also inviolable part of the training package. This approach of training mind, body and spirit is quintessential to yield sailors who are professionally competent, physically fit, robust and rugged in temperament and have the drive and aggressiveness to tackle challenges posed in a military life.

Chilka’s Role

Mission Statement. The mission statement of the establishment is Naval orientation and training of recruits to enable accomplishment of their immediate task with self-assurance.

Training Objective. The goals that have been derived from the training objectives for this establishment are :-

(a) Acquaint with the basic orientation so as to break the trainees into the Naval way of life.

(b) Prioritised training to template the Minds & Hearts of the raw recruits to Good Order and Naval Discipline, and to live by the Navy's Core Valves. Inculcate habits of the Honesty, Integrity, Sincerity and Commitment.

(c) Develop a trainee into a sailor with excellent military bearing. Transform the trainees to become true naval ambassadors by their exemplary conduct.

(d) Particular emphasis to English language proficiency and swimming qualification.

(e) Instil a sense of spirit-de-corps, camaraderie and team spirit by participation in troop games and to have confidence in themselves.