Naval Philatelic Society

The Naval Philatelic Society was founded,on 17 October 1979, at Visakhaptnam, by Cdr.S Shekhar and Cdr.U.N Acharya with an aim to promote Naval Philately and to persuade the Govt. to release more stamps on Indian and Merchant Navy.Also to assist the Navy in their effort to get stamps on Naval Themes and assist in release of special covers. The NPS conducted philatelic exhibitions like NAVPHILEX 79 on naval themes to popularise maritime philately.NAVPHILEX 79, at the Naval Base in Visakhapatnam and several other Exhibitions later. It has a good membership base all over India.

(Pic. of the special cover released at NAVPHILEX 79 )

The Naval Philatelic Society has recently published its own blog and can be accessed at: http://navalphilatelicsocietyindia.blogspot.com/