Navy commissions submarine-hunting ship INS Arnala  

Indian Navy on Wednesday commissioned the INS Arnala, the first of the next-generation ships capable of detecting enemy submarines in shallow waters.

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The commissioning was done at the Naval Dockyard in Visakhapatnam, and the ship has been made by Garden Reach Shipbuilders and Engineers (GRSE), Kolkata, a public sector company.

The ship was constructed through a public-private-partnership mode, a first of its kind in India. GRSE collaborated with a private company L&T that has a shipyard at Kattupalli, Tamil Nadu.

The INS Arnala is special as it was for this warship that GRSE was awarded the Defence Minister’s Award in 2022, for designing the ‘most silent ship’.

The chief guest at the ceremony was Chief of Defence Staff Gen Anil Chauhan.

The Navy is getting 16 such ships being made at a cost of nearly Rs 13,000 crore.  Public Sector shipyards, the Cochin Shipyard Limited and Garden Reach Shipbuilders and Engineers, Kolkata, have been contracted to manufacture eight ships each. The GRSE has entered into a Public-Private Partnership (PPP) with L&T Shipbuilders to produce the ships.