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  Opinion Edit 07 Dec 2016 Is Navy accident-prone?
  Published : Dec 7, 2016, 1:04 am IST
  Indian navy sailors participate in a rehearsal of beating retreat and tattoo ceremony for Navy Day celebrations in Mumbai, India. (Photo: AP)
  Accidents have become a minor habit with the Navy. Only two years ago, its chief, Adm. D.K. Joshi, put in his papers owning moral responsibility for mishaps involving two submarines. This was the right thing to do, of course. But has the Indian Navy, as a front-rank national institution, taken the needed steps to ensure that some kinds of failure just don't happen because the standard operating procedures are made tight, and everything done to ensure that they are adhered to in the minutest detail. This calls for rigorous training and displaying a maintenance culture of the highest calibre in which there is no room for infringements.