Overview
- The ship was commissioned on January 5 at Goa Shipyard in Vasco in the presence of Goa Chief Minister Pramod Sawant, Defence Secretary Rajesh Kumar Singh and ICG Director General Paramesh Sivamani.
- Displacing about 4,200 tonnes, the vessel is the largest in the ICG fleet, exceeds 22 knots and has an endurance of roughly 6,000 nautical miles.
- Constructed with over 60% indigenous content, it is the first of two pollution control vessels designed and built in India by Goa Shipyard Limited.
- Purpose-built systems include oil fingerprinting and standoff chemical detection, dynamic positioning, an onboard pollution-control lab, external firefighting capability and modern armament for multi-mission tasks.
- The ship will be based at Kochi under Deputy Inspector General Ashok Kumar Bhama with a crew of 14 officers and 115 personnel, including two women officers.