SAIL powers INS Taragiri with indigenous special steel
- Steel Authority of India Limited (SAIL), a Maharatna CPSE under the Ministry of Steel, supplied the entire ~4,000 tonnes of special-grade steel plates used to build INS Taragiri, the fourth Project 17A Nilgiri-class stealth frigate.
- Demonstrates convergence of Aatmanirbhar Bharat, defence indigenisation, and Make in India in heavy industry + warship-building.
- Examinable for GS-III (Defence, Indigenisation, Industry, PSU) and Prelims facts on Project 17A, SAIL plants and DMR steel grades.