Prime Minister Narendra Modi commissioned India’s first indigenously designed and built aircraft carrier INS Vikrant on Friday that put India into a select league of countries with the domestic capability to build such large war ships.
The Prime Minister launched the carrier built at a cost of Rs 20,000 crore at a function organized at Cochin Shipyard Limited.
Modi unveiled a plaque naming the INS Vikrant, which played a pivotal role in the 1971 India-Pakistan War, in the Navy.
The carrier is equipped with state-of-the-art features.
