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Navy's First Indian-Built Fleet Tanker 'Surya' Launched in Visakhapatnam as Fifth Ship's Keel Is Laid

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VISAKHAPATNAM: Defence Minister Rajnath Singh launched the first of five fleet support ships being built in India for the Navy at Hindustan Shipyard Limited in Visakhapatnam on October 6, All India Radio reported. The ship has been named Surya.

At the same ceremony, Singh laid the keel for Fleet Support Ship-5, the last of the class, and inaugurated an upgraded Slipway-4 and a 300-tonne Goliath crane at the shipyard.

Fleet support ships are tankers that replenish warships at sea with fuel, water, ammunition and stores, so that the Navy's fleet can stay out for long periods without returning to harbour. When the contract was signed, the Defence Ministry said the ships would extend the fleet's strategic reach and mobility, strengthen the Navy's blue-water capability, and could also be used to evacuate people and for humanitarian and disaster relief.

Singh said Surya would strengthen the Navy's "reach, endurance and operational effectiveness",…

The grey Indian Navy replenishment tanker INS Deepak off Mumbai with small boats in the foreground

VB-G RAM G: 375 Kinds of Rural Work Now Allowed Under the New Jobs Scheme, 41% More Than Before

EEST TV News Desk

NEW DELHI: Rural households can now be given work on 375 kinds of projects under the government's new rural employment law, after the Ministry of Rural Development notified the scheme's Schedule of Permissible Works, All India Radio reported on October 6.

The list is "a 41 percent expansion over the 266 works under the previous framework", the ministry said. It is the first full list of what work can be done under the Viksit Bharat – Guarantee for Rozgar and Ajeevika Mission (Gramin), or VB-G RAM G, which replaced the…

A signboard for a rural approach road built under MGNREGS beside a dirt road in Mizoram
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