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National Security Adviser visits Naval Academy

Staff Reporter

KANNUR: National Security Adviser M.K. Narayanan paid a visit to the Ezhimala Naval Academy project on Wednesday.

Mr. Narayanan reached the site in a Navy helicopter at noon after dedicating a column erected in memory of the Kunhali Marakkars at the site of the Kunhali Marakkar Museum at Iringal, near Vadakara, in Kozhikode. The Naval Academy sources described the visit of the National Security Advisor as informal. Flag Officer Commanding-in-Chief of Southern Naval Command Vice-Admiral S.C.S. Bangara also accompanied him. He flew back to Kozhikode at 3 p.m.

A press release issued by the Press Information Bureau (Defence Wing) here said the decision to erect the memorial at Iringal had been decided following the visit of Chief of Naval Staff Admiral Arun Prakash to the museum earlier. The release said while the Government had taken steps to preserve a small house associated with the Kunhali lineage at Iringal and converted it into a museum displaying artefacts, the Navy galvanised its resources and constructed the Kunhali Marakkar Memorial Stupa within the museum compound.

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