Question: Recently when did the Indian Coast Guard ship ‘Arush’ was commissioned?
(a) 25 May 2016
(b) 26 May 2016
(c) 28 May 2016
(d) 20 May 2016
Ans: (b)
Related facts:
- On 26 May 2016 the Indian Coast Guard ship ‘Arush’, the seventeenth in the series of twenty Fast Patrol Vessels (FPVs) was commissioned at Kochi by the Coast Guard Commander (Western Seaboard) Additional Director General SPS Basra.
- The Indian Coast Guard ship ‘Arush’, the seventeenth in the series of twenty fast patrol vessels (FPVs), designed and built by Cochin Shipyard Limited.
- The ship has been named ICGS ‘Arush’, literally meaning ‘first ray of sun’.
- It will be based at Porbandar under the administrative and operational control of the Commander, Coast Guard Region (North West).
- The ship is commanded by Commandant Pramod Pokhriyal and has complement of four officers and 33 enrolled personnel.
Reference:
http://pib.nic.in/newsite/PrintRelease.aspx?relid=145707
http://www.defencenews.in/article/Coast-Guard-ship-%E2%80%98Arush%E2%80%99-commissioned-5510
http://www.uniindia.com/indian-coast-guard-ship-arush-commissioned/other/news/497285.html