Ocean Research Vessel ORV Sagar Manthan Launched at Kolkata

The correct answer is Garden Reach Shipbuilders and Engineers Limited, a defence public sector undertaking, which designed, engineered and constructed the vessel at its Rishi Bankim Shipyard in Kolkata for the National Centre for Polar and Ocean Research. The minister praised the yard for completing the launch within two years of signing the contract. Option A, Cochin Shipyard, is the yard associated with the indigenous aircraft carrier, which makes it the most attractive wrong choice for anyone who remembers only that an Indian yard did something notable. Option B, Mazagon Dock, builds submarines and destroyers for the Navy at Mumbai, again a real and important yard but not this one. Option D, Hindustan Shipyard at Visakhapatnam, also builds and repairs ships for the government. Anchor the answer with the city: this launch took place at Kolkata, and the Kolkata yard is GRSE.

The correct answer is ORV Sagar Kanya. That vessel is 43 years old and was procured from Germany in 1983, and the new ship will take over its work step by step. The point matters because the replacement marks a shift from buying research platforms abroad to building them in India, which the Secretary of the Ministry of Earth Sciences highlighted at the ceremony. Option A, Sagar Nidhi, is a research vessel of the National Institute of Ocean Technology and is not the ship named for replacement here. Option C, INS Sandhayak, is a naval survey vessel, so it belongs to the Navy rather than to the Ministry of Earth Sciences. Option D, Sagar Sampada, is a fishery and oceanographic research vessel and shares the Sagar prefix, which is exactly why it is a tempting distractor. Remember the German origin and the year 1983 with the name Sagar Kanya.

The correct answer is the Deep Ocean Mission, about Rs 840 crore. More precisely, the ship was built under Vertical-4 of that mission, which deals with deep ocean survey and exploration, and it is an all-weather multidisciplinary platform engineered even for the Southern Ocean, with a projected service life of 30 years. Option B names Samudrayaan, which is the crewed submersible effort and is itself a part of the wider deep ocean effort rather than the programme named in this release, and its cost figure is invented. Option C, Blue Revolution, is a fisheries development scheme and has nothing to do with research vessels. Option D, O-SMART, is a real ocean services and technology scheme of the same ministry, which makes it the sharpest distractor, but the vessel is placed under the Deep Ocean Mission. Note also the dual class certification by the Indian Register of Shipping and the American Bureau of Shipping.