{"id":19781,"date":"2026-02-19T11:39:02","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T06:09:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theeducationoverview.in\/?p=19781"},"modified":"2026-02-19T11:39:02","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T06:09:02","slug":"launch-of-first-cadet-training-ship-krishna-at-m-s-lt-kattupalli-chennai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theeducationoverview.in\/?p=19781","title":{"rendered":"LAUNCH OF FIRST CADET TRAINING SHIP &#8211; KRISHNA AT M\/s L&#038;T, KATTUPALLI, CHENNAI"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"text-center event-heading-background\">\n<h2 id=\"Titleh2\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong>LAUNCH OF FIRST CADET TRAINING SHIP &#8211; KRISHNA AT M\/s L&amp;T, KATTUPALLI, CHENNAI<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<h3 id=\"Subtitleh3\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"PrDateTime\" class=\"ReleaseDateSubHeaddateTime text-center pt20\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong>Posted On: 17 FEB 2026 8:30AM by PIB Delhi<\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"pt20\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong>Yard 18003\u00a0<em>(Krishna)<\/em>,\u00a0the first of the three\u00a0Cadet Training Ships (CTS) under construction at M\/s L&amp;T, Kattupalli (Chennai), has been launched on\u00a016 Feb 2026. In keeping with the Naval traditions,\u00a0Mrs Anupama Chauhan launched the ship in the presence of General Anil Chauhan, Chief of Defence Staff. Senior officials of the Indian Armed Forces and M\/s L&amp;T Shipbuilding, Chennai attended the event.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong>The\u00a0ship is\u00a0indigenously designed and built\u00a0by M\/s L&amp;T. Formal Delivery of the ship to Indian Navy is planned in end 2026. These Cadet Training Ships will be utilised\u00a0for training Officer Cadets, including women, at sea after their basic training ashore, and Cadets from Friendly Foreign Countries.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong>This is yet another significant milestone in Indian Navy\u2019s pursuit towards indigenous shipbuilding and is in consonance with the Government of India\u2019s vision of\u00a0<em>Aatmanirbhar Bharat<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0Make in India\u00a0initiative.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.pib.gov.in\/WriteReadData\/userfiles\/image\/Pic(3)(1)QZTH.jpeg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.pib.gov.in\/WriteReadData\/userfiles\/image\/Pic(2)(1)YXPB.jpeg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.pib.gov.in\/WriteReadData\/userfiles\/image\/Pic(1)(1)2UJY.jpeg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LAUNCH OF FIRST CADET TRAINING SHIP &#8211; KRISHNA AT M\/s L&amp;T, KATTUPALLI, CHENNAI Posted On: 17 FEB 2026 8:30AM by PIB Delhi Yard 18003\u00a0(Krishna),\u00a0the first of the three\u00a0Cadet Training Ships (CTS) under construction at M\/s L&amp;T, Kattupalli (Chennai), has been launched on\u00a016 Feb 2026. In keeping with the Naval traditions,\u00a0Mrs Anupama Chauhan launched the ship &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19782,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theeducationoverview.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theeducationoverview.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theeducationoverview.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theeducationoverview.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theeducationoverview.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19781"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theeducationoverview.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19781\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19783,"href":"https:\/\/theeducationoverview.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19781\/revisions\/19783"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theeducationoverview.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/19782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theeducationoverview.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theeducationoverview.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theeducationoverview.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}