Building India’s Maritime Future: DG Shipping’s Visit to GRSE, Kolkata

Director General of Shipping, Shri Shyam Jagannathan visited GRSE, Kolkata
on 13 March 2026, reinforcing the Government of India’s sharpened focus on
scaling domestic shipbuilding. The visit comes alongside a significant policy push: a
₹24,736 crore allocation for the Shipbuilding Financial Assistance Scheme to
catalyse vessel construction in India and enhance global competitiveness.
Complementing this, the Shipbuilding Development Scheme carries a ₹19,989
crore outlay, including ₹9,930 crore for Greenfield clusters and ₹8,261 crore for
Brownfield expansions—a decisive pathway to add capacity, modernise
infrastructure, and deepen the ecosystem across the country.
This integrated approach underscores the Government of India and MoPSW
commitment to position India among the world’s leading shipbuilding nations by
2047. DG Shipping (DGS) is steering implementation endtoend, ensuring
momentum on approvals, adherence to standards, and timely progress under the
scheme architecture.
As one of India’s premier defence shipyards, GRSE continues to play a pivotal role
in this journey with its proven design-engineering capabilities, modular construction
expertise, and multiyard capacity. The GRSE visit reflects the collaborative,
missionmode approach now driving India’s maritime growth—aligning central policy,
implementation agencies, and shipyards to deliver scale, speed, and selfreliance.