Comments on: Interesting Places: Alang, India http://www.beanos.com/~tsoutij/wp/2009/04/interesting-places-alang-india I like food. I like hammers. I like bunnies. Thu, 02 Jun 2011 01:10:18 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 By: Tijger Tsou http://www.beanos.com/~tsoutij/wp/2009/04/interesting-places-alang-india/comment-page-1#comment-246 Tijger Tsou Mon, 13 Jul 2009 13:42:42 +0000 http://www.beanos.com/~tsoutij/wp/?p=587#comment-246 Alang is generally off-limits to anyone except those who have successfully applied for a visitor's permit from the Gujarat Maritime Board. For foreign nationals you can bet that this involves a drawn-out application process that will invariably involve the host nation's embassy, and other red tape. I have not been there personally, but this sort of thing is typical of local maritime agencies, and you can bet that photography or video are prohibited. For example, to be a non US citizen, caught at Newport News shipyard in the USA snapping pictures of the newest nuclear powered aircraft carrier under construction would probably get you in some sort of hot water. However quite a bit of media makes its way out of Alang so you can also infer that there is either bribery or covert media capture going on. Taking pictures of the shipyard in the best possible light (smiling, enthusiastic workers, no snapshots of unsafe work practices) will probably help as well- if you get caught. Alang is generally off-limits to anyone except those who have successfully applied for a visitor’s permit from the Gujarat Maritime Board. For foreign nationals you can bet that this involves a drawn-out application process that will invariably involve the host nation’s embassy, and other red tape.

I have not been there personally, but this sort of thing is typical of local maritime agencies, and you can bet that photography or video are prohibited. For example, to be a non US citizen, caught at Newport News shipyard in the USA snapping pictures of the newest nuclear powered aircraft carrier under construction would probably get you in some sort of hot water.

However quite a bit of media makes its way out of Alang so you can also infer that there is either bribery or covert media capture going on. Taking pictures of the shipyard in the best possible light (smiling, enthusiastic workers, no snapshots of unsafe work practices) will probably help as well- if you get caught.

]]> By: james wharton http://www.beanos.com/~tsoutij/wp/2009/04/interesting-places-alang-india/comment-page-1#comment-241 james wharton Sat, 11 Jul 2009 09:27:06 +0000 http://www.beanos.com/~tsoutij/wp/?p=587#comment-241 Hi Planning to visit this fascinating place myself in the coming months but all internet sites I have visited claim the place is closed to visitors. Can anybody advise on how to get into the yards. Thanks James Hi
Planning to visit this fascinating place myself in the coming months but all internet sites I have visited claim the place is closed to visitors. Can anybody advise on how to get into the yards.

Thanks James

]]> By: shwetabh http://www.beanos.com/~tsoutij/wp/2009/04/interesting-places-alang-india/comment-page-1#comment-142 shwetabh Wed, 29 Apr 2009 04:28:28 +0000 http://www.beanos.com/~tsoutij/wp/?p=587#comment-142 very impressive...i wish you could send me more pictures of people there at alang...! i am just too curious to know what really it looks like... cheers scv very impressive…i wish you could send me more pictures of people there at alang…! i am just too curious to know what really it looks like…
cheers
scv

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