<span style="color: #222222;">In Gujarat, the Coast Guard District Headquarters Number-1 conducted the district-level Pollution Response Workshop and Mock Drill – 2021 at Porbandar. It was conducted to revalidate the response mechanism for oil pollution incidents and enable the Indian Coast Guard to fine tune the Regional and National Oil Spill Disaster Contingency Plan.<br />''<br />''According to official sources, the workshop was inaugurated by Deputy Inspector General S.K. Verghese, the Commander of District HQs Number-1. The workshop was conducted in two phases. The First Phase consisted of Table-top Exercise simulating oil spill while the practical demonstration of oil spill equipment on-board ICGS Samudra Pavak for containment and recovery of oil spill was covered in the Second Phase.</span><br />