{"id":548548,"date":"2026-03-27T13:55:20","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T13:55:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/548548\/"},"modified":"2026-03-27T13:55:20","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T13:55:20","slug":"breaking-news-dredging-corporation-of-india-procures-11-new-dredgers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/548548\/","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING NEWS: Dredging Corporation of India procures 11 new dredgers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Dredging Corporation of India Limited (DCI) has announced plans to procure 11 modern dredgers over the next 5 years to strengthen India\u2019s port infrastructure. <\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"452\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/dci-768x452.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium_large size-medium_large\" alt=\"\" loading=\"eager\"  \/>photo courtesy of DCI<\/p>\n<p>DCI CEO &amp; MD Captain S. Divakar said that all dredgers will be manufactured domestically under the Atmanirbhar Bharat Initiative, with contracts awarded to Hindustan Shipyard and other Indian shipyards.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAdvanced dredgers will also be built in partnership with foreign companies, and world-class training institutions will be established across ports in Andhra Pradesh as per agreements with the state government,\u201d Divakar said.<\/p>\n<p>The Atmanirbhar Bharat Initiative is a comprehensive national strategy launched by the Government of India to promote economic self-reliance, resilience and sustainable growth. <\/p>\n<p>Introduced in 2020 amid global economic disruptions, the initiative seeks to strengthen domestic capabilities across manufacturing, services, finance and technology, while remaining integrated with global value chains. <\/p>\n<p>In the context of banking, finance and the Indian economy, Atmanirbhar Bharat represents a structural shift towards strengthening internal economic capacity, reducing external vulnerabilities and enhancing the efficiency of financial intermediation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Dredging Corporation of India Limited (DCI) has announced plans to procure 11 modern dredgers over the next&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":548549,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4,450,60636,244415,451,2344,231411,3,452,453],"class_list":["post-548548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking-news","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-dci","tag-dredging-corporation-of-india","tag-headlines","tag-india","tag-new-dredger","tag-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=548548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548548\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/548549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=548548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=548548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=548548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}