{"id":70217,"date":"2025-10-26T15:21:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-26T09:51:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=70217"},"modified":"2025-10-27T16:29:26","modified_gmt":"2025-10-27T10:59:26","slug":"icgs-ajit-and-icgs-aparajit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/icgs-ajit-and-icgs-aparajit\/","title":{"rendered":"ICGS Ajit and ICGS Aparajit"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>ICGS Ajit and ICGS Aparajit Latest News<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Recently, the Indian Coast Guard (ICG) launched two advanced Fast Patrol Vessels (FPVs) \u2014 ICGS Ajit and ICGS Aparajit \u2014 at Goa Shipyard Limited (GSL).<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About ICGS Ajit and ICGS Aparajit<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">These two vessels are the seventh and eighth in a series of eight indigenously built Fast Patrol Vessels (FPVs).<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Built By:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0 The Goa Shipyard Limited (GSL).<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><b>Features of ICGS Ajit and ICGS Aparajit<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Design:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0 52 metres in length and displacing <\/span><b>320 tonnes<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">,<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Propulsion:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> These vessels are equipped with <\/span><b>Controllable Pitch Propellers<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (CPP) offering superior manoeuvrability and propulsion efficiency.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Roles:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> They are capable of multi-mission roles including <\/span><b>fisheries protection<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, coastal patrol, anti-smuggling, <\/span><b>anti-piracy and search &amp; rescue operations<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, particularly around India\u2019s island territories and <\/span><b>Exclusive Economic Zone.<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><b>Key Facts about the Indian Coast Guard<\/b><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It was formally established in <\/span><b>1978 by the Coast Guard Act, 1978<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> as an independent armed force of India.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Administration:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> The organization is headed by the Director General Indian Coast Guard (DGICG).<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Nodal ministry:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> It operates under the Ministry of Defence.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Headquarter:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> New Delhi<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><b>Functions of Indian Coast Guard<\/b><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Ensuring the safety and protection of<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> artificial Islands, offshore terminals, installations and other structures and devices in any maritime zone.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Providing protection and assistance<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to fishermen in distress while at Sea.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Preservation and protection<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> of our maritime environment including prevention and control of marine pollution.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Enforcement <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">of Maritime Zones of India Act.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><b>Source:<\/b> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pib.gov.in\/PressReleasePage.aspx?PRID=2182241\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>PIB<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ICGS Ajit and ICGS Aparajit are the seventh and eighth in a series of eight indigenously built Fast Patrol Vessels (FPVs).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":70398,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3406,21,22,23],"class_list":{"0":"post-70217","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"tag-icgs-ajit-and-icgs-aparajit","9":"tag-prelims-pointers","10":"tag-upsc-current-affairs","11":"tag-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","12":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70217","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\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70217\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}