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INS Ikshak, India's third Survey Vessel Large (SVL) class ship, was built by which shipyard?

Correct answer: (C) Garden Reach Shipbuilders and Engineers (GRSE), Kolkata.

INS Ikshak, the third Survey Vessel Large class ship, was built by Garden Reach Shipbuilders & Engineers, Kolkata.

  1. (A)

    Mazagon Dock Shipbuilders, Mumbai

  2. (B)

    Cochin Shipyard Limited

  3. (C)

    Garden Reach Shipbuilders and Engineers (GRSE), Kolkata

  4. (D)

    Hindustan Shipyard Limited, Visakhapatnam

Explanation

INS Ikshak was built by Garden Reach Shipbuilders & Engineers (GRSE), Kolkata, the yard named in the PIB release as the builder of the third of four Survey Vessel Large ships. The ship is part of a class designed and built as per Indian Register of Shipping classification rules, and its role is hydrographic survey work: mapping coastal and deep-water areas, port and harbour approaches, and navigational channels. INS Ikshak has a 3,400-tonne displacement, 110-metre length and over 80% indigenous content under Aatmanirbhar Bharat. GRSE is central to both the factual answer and the larger defence-indigenisation angle usually tested in RAS current-affairs questions.

Why the other options are wrong

  • (A) Mazagon Dock Shipbuilders, Mumbai is not named in the PIB release as the builder of Ikshak; GRSE, Kolkata is the builder.
  • (B) Cochin Shipyard Limited did not build Ikshak; the ship was commissioned at Naval Base Kochi, while GRSE, Kolkata built it.
  • (D) Hindustan Shipyard Limited, Visakhapatnam is not associated with Ikshak in the PIB release; Garden Reach Shipbuilders & Engineers, Kolkata built the ship.

Concept

This tests defence current affairs, especially indigenous naval shipbuilding and the Survey Vessel Large programme. It recurs in RAS because such questions link factual ship-platform details with Aatmanirbhar Bharat and strategic maritime capability.

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