Naval ships to be decommissioned today

Mumbai: After completing around 30 years of commissioned service, Indian Naval Ships – Veer and Nipat – class missile vessels – are set to be decommissioned today. Both the ships were the frontrunners during the naval offensive on Karachi harbour in the 1971 war. With such a glorious legacy to their names, Veer and Nipat in their new avatars were commissioned at Poti, in erstwhile USSR on March 26, 1987 and December 06, 1988 respectively. Lieutenant Commander Anup Singh and Lieutenant Commander GV Babu were the commissioning COs of INS Veer and Nipat respectively. INS Veer is presently commanded by Commander B Charish K Pal and INS Nipat is commanded by Cdr D Chakrapani. These ships are the first of Veer Class of ships to be decommissioned.