{"id":13723,"date":"2023-08-05T03:20:17","date_gmt":"2023-08-04T21:50:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=13723"},"modified":"2025-04-02T06:44:32","modified_gmt":"2025-04-02T01:14:32","slug":"what-is-neerakshi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/what-is-neerakshi\/","title":{"rendered":"What is Neerakshi?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Neerakshi<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It is an <strong>autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) designed to detect mines.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Named \u201cNeerakshi\u201d <strong>meaning \u201cEyes in the Water<\/strong>\u201d is f<strong>irst of its kind in the country<\/strong> and is expected to undergo user trials by the Indian Navy, Coast Guard, and Army before a commercial launch.<\/li>\n<li>It is a <strong>collaboration of Kolkata-based warshipmaker Garden Reach Shipbuilders and Engineers (GRSE) Ltd and <\/strong>MSME entity <strong>Aerospace Engineering Private Ltd<\/strong> (AEPL).<\/li>\n<li>The AUV, <strong>currently capable of mine detection<\/strong>, is part of GRSE&#8217;s <strong>broader ambitions to create autonomous sea surface vehicles, sea-based drones,<\/strong> and explore green propulsion technologies.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Features<\/strong>:<\/li>\n<li>It can be used for a va<strong>riety of functions ranging from mine detection to mine disposal to underwater survey,<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>It is a 2.1-metre long cylindrical unmanned vehicle<\/strong> about a<strong> foot in diameter<\/strong> and <strong>weighing around 45 kg.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It has an <strong>endurance of nearly 4 hours, <\/strong>and is capable of operating u<strong>p to a depth of 300m.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1)\u00a0What is the Garden Reach Shipbuilders and Engineers (GRSE) Ltd?<\/h3>\n<p>Garden Reach Shipbuilders &amp; Engineers Ltd is the premier Warship building Company in India, under the administrative control of the Ministry of Defence. GRSE, a PCMM Level-2 Certified Company and 40th ranked Fortune India Next 500 Company 2021, dates back to 1884.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hindustantimes.com\/india-news\/india-launches-neerakshi-autonomous-underwater-vehicle-for-mine-detection-101690636002474.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>India launches &#8216;Neerakshi&#8217; &#8211; Autonomous Underwater Vehicle for mine detection<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Neerakshi is an autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) designed to detect mines.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":13724,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-13723","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13723\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}