Question

Name a city on the east coast of India which has a shipbuilding yard.

Answer 1

Hint: A city on the east coast that has a shipbuilding yard is in the state of Andhra Pradesh. It is the executive capital of the state. It also has a very famous steel plant. After Chennai and Kolkata, it is the third-largest city on the eastern coast of India.

Complete answer:
-The first shipbuilding processing plant of India was set up at Vishakhapattanam in 1941. It was later embraced by the Indian Government in 1952 and was named 'Hindustan Shipyard Limited'.

-Established as the Scindia Shipyard, it was worked by industrialist Walchand Hirachand as a piece of The Scindia Steam Navigation Company Ltd. Walchand chose Visakhapatnam as an appropriate area for the development of the yard and claimed the land in November 1940.

-On 21 June 1941, Dr. Rajendra Prasad who was around then the acting Congress President laid the establishment stone for the shipyard.

Additional Information:
While the Visakhapatnam port, one of 13 significant ports in India and the main significant port of Andhra Pradesh which likewise turned out to be India's second-biggest port by volume of freight dealt with, was opened in 1933. The Gangavaram Port, India's most profound port was initiated in 2009.

Note:
i) Jal Usha was India’s first boat to be developed completely in India and was worked in Hindustan Shipyard in 1948.
ii) HSL comes under the Ministry of Defence as it was shifted from the Ministry of Shipping in 2010.
iiii) The Kochi Dockyard, created in a joint effort with Japan, is the biggest and latest Dockyard of the nation, though the Mazagaon Dockyard (Mumbai) fabricates the maritime boats for the Indian Navy.
iv) Vizag port and the Gangavaram port initiated in 2009 are the two prospering ports here.