ICGS Samudra Pratap, inducted in December 2025, is significant because it is:

Explanation

ICGS Samudra Pratap marks a capability milestone for the Indian Coast Guard because it is the service's first indigenously designed and built Pollution Control Vessel. The PIB release identifies it as Yard 1267 Samudra Pratap and notes that it was constructed at Goa Shipyard Ltd, which directly rules out an imported-vessel interpretation. The ship also stands out within the fleet because it is the largest Indian Coast Guard ship, at 114.5 metres in length and 4,170 tonnes displacement. Its significance, therefore, is not just that it is a new Coast Guard platform, but that India built a specialised pollution-control vessel domestically for the Coast Guard.

Why the other options are wrong

• (B) The PIB release describes Samudra Pratap as a Pollution Control Vessel, not as a nuclear-powered Coast Guard vessel.
• (C) Samudra Pratap is the largest ship in the Indian Coast Guard fleet, so it cannot be the smallest.
• (D) The PIB release says the vessel was constructed at Goa Shipyard Ltd, so it was not India's first imported Coast Guard vessel from France.

Concept

Defence indigenisation and specialised maritime-security platforms belong to Science and Technology. Official inductions connect technology, Make-in-India capacity and internal security readiness in the RAS syllabus.

Source

• Press Information Bureau, Government of India

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