• The Chief of Army Staff, General MM Naravane commissioned the ‘INS Kavaratti’, the last of four indigenously built anti-submarine warfare  (ASW) stealth corvettes, into the Indian Navy in Visakhapatnam on 22 October 2020.
• The ship has been designed by the Indian Navy’s in-house organisation, Directorate of Naval Design (DND), and built by Garden Reach Shipbuilders and Engineers (GRSE), Kolkata.
• The anti-submarine warfare  (ASW) stealth corvettes has been undertaken under ‘Project 28’, also called Kamorta-class corvettes of the Navy.
• INS Kavaratti has a state-of-the-art weapons and sensor suite capable of “detecting and prosecuting” submarines and good endurance for long-range deployments.

Project 28 :

• The Project 28 was approved in 2003, which included construction of four  anti-submarine warfare corvettes for Indian Navy.
• The four corvettes (ships) under this project are INS Kamorta, INS Kadmatt, INS Kiltan and INS Kavaratti, which were commissioned in 2014, 2016, 2017 and 2020 respectively.