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Indian Maritime Administration

The document outlines the various roles within the Indian Maritime Administration. It discusses the Director General of Shipping who oversees powers under the Merchant Shipping Act. It also describes the Mercantile Marine Department established at major ports to oversee operations. Various positions are appointed like surveyors, radio inspectors, shipping masters and assistants, and directors of seamen's employment offices and welfare officers to perform duties related to shipping, seamen welfare, and enforcing maritime regulations.

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Indian Maritime Administration

The document outlines the various roles within the Indian Maritime Administration. It discusses the Director General of Shipping who oversees powers under the Merchant Shipping Act. It also describes the Mercantile Marine Department established at major ports to oversee operations. Various positions are appointed like surveyors, radio inspectors, shipping masters and assistants, and directors of seamen's employment offices and welfare officers to perform duties related to shipping, seamen welfare, and enforcing maritime regulations.

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Indian Maritime Administration

Director General of Shipping-- Appointed by the Central Government for the purpose of exercising
or discharging the powers, authority or duties conferred or imposed upon the Director-General by or
under the the Merchant Shipping Act.
Mercantile Marine Department—Established & Maintained by the Central Government at each the
ports of Bombay, Calcutta and Madras and at such other port in India as it may consider necessary.
The Office of the Mercantile Marine Department at the port of Bombay, Calcutta or Madras shall be in
the charge of a Principal Officer, and the office at any other port shall be in the charge of such officer
as the Central Government may appoint in this behalf. The Principal Officer and other officers shall be
subject to the control of the Director-General.
Surveyors— Appointed by the Central Government at such ports as it may consider necessary as
many persons as it may think fir to be surveyors for the purposes of the Merchant Shipping Act. The
surveyors may be nautical surveyors, ship surveyors or engineer and ship surveyors.
Radio inspectors— Appointed by the Central Government for the purpose of securing that the
requirements of the M S Act and the rules and regulations thereunder relating to radio telegraphy
and, radio telephony are compiled with.
Shipping Offices – Established by the Central Government at every port in India in which it thinks it
necessary so to do and shall appoint thereto a Shipping Master and as many Deputy Shipping
Masters and Assistant Shipping Masters as it may consider necessary.
Shipping masters, deputy shipping masters and assistant shipping masters shall exercise their
powers and discharge their duties subject to the general control of the Central Government or of any
intermediate authority which the Central Government may specify in this behalf.
Seamen’s employment offices—Established by the Central Government at every port in India in
which it thinks it necessary so to do, a seamen’s employment office and shall appoint thereto a
director and as many deputy directors and assistant directors as it may consider necessary.
The directors, deputy directors and assistant directors shall exercise their powers and discharge their
duties subject to general control of the Central Government or of any intermediate authority which the
Central Government may specify in this behalf.
Seamen’s welfare officers— Appointed by the Central Government at such ports in or outside India
as it may consider necessary.
A seamen’s welfare officer appointed under sub-section (1) shall perform—
(a) in the case of any such officer appointed at any port in India, such functions in
relation to welfare of seamen as may be assigned to him by the Central Government.
(b) in the case of any such officer appointed at any port outsides India, such functions in
relation to welfare of seamen and such functions of an Indian consular officer under
Part VII as may be assigned to him by the Central Government.
(c) If any seamen’s welfare officer appointed at any port outside India performs any
functions assigned to an Indian consular officer under Part VII, such functions shall
have the same effect as if they had been performed by an Indian consular officer for
the purposes of that Part.

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