He dedicates the 15,000 km range INS Kolkata to the nation. It has been constructed by the Mazagon Dockyards Limited and has been designed by the Navy’s design bureau.
The 6,800-tonne warship, will showcase a giant leap in shipbuilding technology in the country. INS Kolkata will be a part of the Kolkata Class destroyers of the Indian Navy which will include follow-on ships by the name of INS Kochi and INS Chennai respectively.
India is also building an over 40,000-tonne indigenous aircraft carrier INS Vikrant.
Besides dedicating INS Kolkata, Prime Minister Modi will also launch a slew of other infrastructure projects worth Rs 6,000 crore in Maharashtra in a day-long visit to the state.
These include a port connectivity highway project worth Rs 1,927 crore at the Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust (JNPT) in Mumbai and foundation stone for a port-based multi-product Special Economic Zone (SEZ) at the JNPT.
He will also lay foundation of four laning for the Solapur-Maharashtra/Karnataka border section on Pune-Solapur stretch of National Highway-9 (NH-9) at Solapur.