New Delhi

India’s first indigenous aircraft carrier INS Vikrant will be commissioned by Prime Minister Narendra Modi today (Friday) in India’s southern Kochi city.

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It is designed by the Indian Navy’s in-house Warship Design Bureau (WDB) and built by Cochin Shipyard Limited, a state unit under the Ministry of Ports, Shipping and Waterways. 

Touted as “the city on the move”, Vikrant has been built with state-of-the-art automation features and is the largest ship ever built in the maritime history of India.