Select the correct statement/s from the following : A. INS Vikrant officially joined the Indian Navy's Western Naval Command in August 2024. B. INS Vikrant (INS – I) is an aircraft carrier in service with the Indian Navy. It is the first ship of its kind to be built in Tamil Nadu.
- (1)Only A
- (2)Only B
- (3)Both A and B
- (4)None of the above
Correct — option (1), Only A. INS Vikrant, India's first indigenously built aircraft carrier, officially joined the Indian Navy's Western Naval Command in August 2024, going on to operate alongside INS Vikramaditya as part of India's dual-carrier battle group. Statement A is accurate. Statement B fails on a single, checkable fact: INS Vikrant was designed by the Navy's own Warship Design Bureau and built by Cochin Shipyard Limited — that is, in Kochi, Kerala, not Tamil Nadu. Everything else in statement B (that it is an aircraft carrier in service with the Indian Navy, and the first of its kind built indigenously) is correct, but the state named is wrong, which is enough to make the whole statement incorrect for the purpose of this question.
- (2)Only B — This would require statement B to be true and statement A false. Statement A is in fact correct — INS Vikrant did join the Western Naval Command in August 2024 — so this option gets the true statement backwards, and statement B is itself wrong on the state of construction (Kerala, not Tamil Nadu).
- (3)Both A and B — This treats statement B as accurate alongside A. Statement B's claim that INS Vikrant was the first ship of its kind 'to be built in Tamil Nadu' is factually wrong — it was built by Cochin Shipyard Limited in Kochi, Kerala. A single wrong location is enough to disqualify the whole statement, even though the rest of B (aircraft carrier, in service, first indigenous carrier) is accurate.
- (4)None of the above — This would require both statements to be false. Statement A — that INS Vikrant officially joined the Western Naval Command in August 2024 — is correct, so at least one statement is true, and 'none of the above' cannot be the answer.
INS Vikrant is India's first indigenously designed and built aircraft carrier, developed by the Navy's Warship Design Bureau and constructed at Cochin Shipyard Limited in Kochi, Kerala. Its commissioning and subsequent operational integration into the fleet are landmark events in India's indigenous defence shipbuilding programme.
MPSC current-affairs questions on major defence milestones often embed one correct location or date alongside one subtly wrong one, testing whether a candidate can separate the genuinely notable achievement (an indigenous aircraft carrier reaching full operational integration) from an incorrect detail (the shipyard's actual state).
- INS Vikrant officially joined the Indian Navy's Western Naval Command in August 2024, operating alongside INS Vikramaditya in India's dual-carrier battle group.
- INS Vikrant is India's first indigenously designed and built aircraft carrier, developed by the Navy's Warship Design Bureau.
- It was constructed by Cochin Shipyard Limited in Kochi, Kerala — not Tamil Nadu.
- Both INS Vikramaditya and INS Vikrant are intended to be homeported at INS Kadamba, the naval base at Karwar, Karnataka.
A is accurate; B has the right ship but the wrong state.
- Swapping the state where a major indigenous defence platform was built (Kerala for Tamil Nadu, or vice versa)
- Assuming a statement with several correct details (aircraft carrier, in service, first indigenous) must be wholly correct despite one wrong fact embedded in it
MPSC current-affairs questions on defence milestones frequently combine a correct date or command assignment with an incorrect construction location or year, requiring the candidate to evaluate each statement independently rather than accepting a mostly-true statement as fully true.
No directly related past PYQ was found.
- practice — not a real PYQ
INS Vikrant, India's first indigenously built aircraft carrier, was constructed by which shipyard, and in which state?
- (a)Mazagon Dock Shipbuilders, Maharashtra
- (b)Cochin Shipyard Limited, Kerala
- (c)Garden Reach Shipbuilders, West Bengal
- (d)Hindustan Shipyard, Andhra Pradesh
Answer(b) Cochin Shipyard Limited, Kerala — INS Vikrant was designed by the Navy's Warship Design Bureau and built at Kochi.
- practice — not a real PYQ
INS Vikrant officially joined which Naval Command in August 2024, going on to operate alongside INS Vikramaditya?
- (a)Eastern Naval Command
- (b)Southern Naval Command
- (c)Western Naval Command
- (d)Andaman and Nicobar Command
Answer(c) Western Naval Command — INS Vikrant joined the Western Naval Command in August 2024, forming part of India's dual-carrier battle group.