The most vital national interest of a country would be the continued promotion of the economic well being of its people. National interests are an amalgam of the national values and objectives normally incorporated into the constitutional philosophies of country, like in the Constitution of India. India has in particular given an express declaration of the new nation’s aspirations and philosophical values to ensure an alround development of its people – social, economic, political, spiritual ad secular – in its Directive Principles of State Policy and Fundamental Rights. Very few newly independent countries in the post-colonial era had undertaken such an exercise mandating the future governments and rulers to advance the lives and destiny of the people on the lines set forth in the above two most important provisions. These constitutional prescriptions also mandate the nation to avail the maximum utilization of the natural and physical resources of the country. Among the vast variety of the resources that mother nature has bestowed on India, maritime resources are one of the richest and abundant.