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Executive Summary

This report focuses on Navik Jeevan to understand the life of Indian Seafarers and Pre-sea
Students. The objective of this study is to identify various issues faced by the seafarers and
students during their service on board and training respectively.

The report is broken down to present the purpose of the survey, select work on seafarers around
the world, research methodology, and perspective of the Indian Seafarers and Pre-sea Students.

Introduction

This section of the report provides information on Indian Shipping Industry – Existing issues and
future requirements, Career at sea, and Indian Maritime Education and Training. It also discusses
about the genesis of the idea for this survey and various categories.

Seafarers & Pre-sea Students – A Literature Survey

This section contains brief information regarding the social fabric of India and the select work
carried out so far on seafarers around the world.
Research Methodology

This chapter is concerned with detailing and developing the research methodology adopted for
the design and validation of questions, software for the survey, data generation, acquisition and
analysis.

Indian Seafarers’ Perspective

The total number of respondents in the seafarer category is 2203; the female seafarers are
adequately represented to the count of 1.6%. Nearly 70% respondents are graduate and above.
In this section, the perspective of Indian Seafarers has been presented in various categories,
such as career, colleagues’ perception, competency, employment contract, culture including
discrimination & harassment, enhanced training, fatigue & stress, safety & environment,
motivation & happiness, Maritime Administration, etc.

Some of the noteworthy points are:

Training

• Close to one-fourth of the pre-sea trainers report that pre-sea students have difficulties
in English communication.
• 94% of the pre-sea trainers recommend that physical activities should be a compulsory
part of pre-sea training.

• More than 60% of respondents feel that the value added training greatly help them to
improve their performance on board. Around one-third of the junior officers and ratings
say that their company does not provide financial support for value added training.

• Approximately 9% of the respondents are critical to safety drills and say that the drills are
conducted only for formality or only a few drills are conducted.

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