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MV Kavaratti is a Cruise Ship which provides service between Kochi and Lakshadweep. MV Kavaratti, was designed especially for the Lakshadweep Islands to promote tourism. The 120 meter long ship with a total carrying capacity of 700 passengers and 200 tons of cargo is the largest passenger vessel ever created in India that is built with a total ...
MV Corals is a cruise ship that operates between the city of Cochin and the Lakshadweep islands. The ship was built by Colombo Dockyard in Sri Lanka with Norway-based Global Maritime Brevik. The then Union Minister of Shipping, Road Transport and Highways, Nitin Jairam Gadkari, dedicated the ship on January 10, 2015, to the nation. [1]
The Indian union territory of Lakshadweep has only one operational airport named Agatti Airport on the island of Agatti. Under the Government of India's UDAN scheme, the Agatti Airport is proposed to be expanded. Also, two water aerodromes at Minicoy and Kavaratti are proposed to be developed for tourism purposes. [1]
The Lakshadweep islands were a part of the Madras Presidency under the British Raj and in accordance with the Indian Independence Act 1947, enacted by the British parliament, the islands were transferred to the new Union of India. Though the Madras Presidency had an overwhelming Hindu majority, the islands had a Muslim majority.
Formerly the Union Territory of Lakshadweep was known as Laccadive, Minicoy, and Amindivi Islands, [2] a name that was changed to Lakshadweep by an act of Parliament in 1973. [ 3 ] The Laccadive subgroup had been known earlier as the " Cannanore Islands " [ 4 ] after the coastal town of Kannur .
Lakshadweep (Malayalam: [lɐkʂɐd̪βʷiːbɨ̆]) is a union territory of India. It is an archipelago of 36 islands [ a ] divided into three island subgroups: the Amindivi Islands in the north, the Laccadive Islands (separated from Amindivi roughly by the 11th parallel north ), and the atoll of Minicoy to the south of the Nine Degree Channel .
Kavaratti (/ k ʌ v ə ˈ r ʌ t i /, Malayalam: [kɐʋɐɾɐt̪ːi]) is the capital of the Union Territory of Lakshadweep in India. Kavaratti is a census town as well as the name of the atoll upon which the town stands.
Positioned on the southernmost island of Lakshadweep, Minicoy is located between 8° 15’ to 8° 20’ N and 73° 01’ to 73° 05 E and spans 4.4 square km, including Viringili atoll. It is an autonomous oceanic island separated from the rest of Lakshadweep by the Nine Degree Channel and from the Maldives by the Eight Degree Channel , which ...