MNTI accreditation
The Director-General of Lighthouses and Lightships (India) and IALA Councillor, Shri J S Chauhan, inaugurated the new VTS simulator at the Marine Navigation Training Institute (MNTI), Kolkata in the presence of the IALA Secretary-General, Francis Zachariae, on 2 May 2017. MNTI has started the process of formal accreditation by DGLL to deliver IALA model courses and hosted a one-week training course for 30 Indian and regional maritime stakeholders as a test case for that project at which the Dean and Vice Dean of the World-Wide Academy and 5 Indian “Level 1” AtoN manager course alumni delivered lectures on the theme of e-Navigation.
